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I have said many times-if I hadn't been exposed to music as a child I don't think I would have been president.
We find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well.
It is now conceivable that our children's children will know the term cancer only as a constellation of stars.
[It] has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from immigrants.
All my life I've been interested in other people's stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them.
History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation.
I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system.
Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.
Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.
I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.
I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past.
The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime.
Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.
If you want to be forgiven, you have to extend forgiveness, even to people who aren't smart enough to ask for it.
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.
All of us in our administration worked hard to support families in raising their children and succeeding at work.
You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being and that of your family and your country.
Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We - the American people - we are the solution.
You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.
$100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. We believe it's long past time to clean up Washington.
It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.
Let us all take more responsibility not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.
I don't mind the debates, they're good for America, but we shouldn't be out there attacking each other all the time.
...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.
From Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power.
I think we need to push harder, we the Democrats, because it's an open door for the Republicans - prosperity centers.
Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.
My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.
We have to change the whole job structure of America. We have got to basically reorient our economy toward the future.
We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons.
Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
When I leave the office on January 20th, I will leave even more idealistic than I was the day I took the oath of office.
True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.
Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
Today’s generation of young people holds more power than any generation before it to make a positive impact on the world.
We need to help younger people recognize their own capacity to do good, and help them discover the rewards of generosity.
There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government.
If we disagree and I think I'm right, I just go ahead and do what I think is right. And then she tells me, 'I told you so.'
NAFTA means jobs. American jobs, and good paying American jobs. If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't support this agreement.
The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.
Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a relentless, questioning, hopeful people.
The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war. We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War.
I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.
If you take advantage of the fact that technology abolishes distance, then you won't need to go to India. Just go to Indiana.
I wanted to continue to be active on those things that I cared about when I was president where I could still have an impact.
When we give what we can, and give it with joy, we don't just renew the American tradition of giving, we also renew ourselves.