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" Character is a journey, not a destination. "
William J. Clinton
Journey
Character
Destination
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" When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama Administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%. You hear that? More work. So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true. "
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" You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being and that of your family and your country. "
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" Where are the jobs going to come from? Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now. "
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" Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening. "
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" In 1979, just after I became governor, I asked Hillary to chair a rural health committee to help expand health care to isolated farm and mountain areas. They recommended to do that partly by deploying trained nurse practitioners in places with no doctors to provide primary care they were trained to provide. "
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" If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program. "
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" My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office. "
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" I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever. "
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Life
Believe
" I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution. "
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" If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better, you know it's hard, and some people think it's boring. "
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Think
People
" Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people. "
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People
Free
" You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle. "
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You
Eagle
" I married my best friend. I was still in awe after more than four years of being around her at how smart and strong and loving and caring she was. And I really hoped that her choosing me and rejecting my advice to pursue her own career was a decision she would never regret. "
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Smart
Caring
Best Friend
" President Obama's approach embodies the values, the ideas, and the direction America must take to build a 21st century version of the American Dream in a nation of shared opportunities, shared prosperity and shared responsibilities. "
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American Dream
American
America
" Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive. "
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Know
Still
People
" Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills. "
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Number
Skills
Today
" President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. Listen to me now. No president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years. "
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Years
Started
" When I became president with a commitment to reform health care, Hillary was a natural to head the health care task force. You all know we failed because we couldn't break a Senate filibuster. Hillary immediately went to work on solving the problems the bill sought to address one by one. "
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Health
" There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. "
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Cannot
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" A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving. "
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" I still believe in a place called Hope. "
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Still
Hope
" If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. "
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" My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in. If you want a you're on your own, winner take all society you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibilities - a 'we're all in it together' society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden. "
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" Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. "
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America
World
" Hillary will make us stronger together. You know it because she's spent a lifetime doing it. "
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Stronger
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" I am in support of the NRA position on gun control. "
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I Am
Support
" The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense. "
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" The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime. "
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" Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents. "
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