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I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism abroad with the loss of the American dream at home.
One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.
When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.
Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug.
Everybody counts, everybody deserves a chance, everybody has a responsible role to play and we all do better when we work together.
Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening.
I believe that people of my income group should pay more, and I explained why, but that won't necessarily lift overall wage levels.
Technology really has turned out to be a wonderful thing. . . . So Americans really are tuning in in positive ways on the Internet.
I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully AND testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.
No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.
Let me be clear: we are still a nation of immigrants, and we honor all those immigrants who are working hard to become new citizens.
The first thing you ought to do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging. . . . Instead they are looking for a bigger shovel.
People will vote for someone who [they perceive] is strong and wrong before they will vote for someone who appears weak but is right.
There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children.
The most profound security threat we face today is global warming....climate change has the capacity to change the way all of us live.
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.
When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didnt like it, and I didnt inhale, and I never tried again.
The established order has too many self-protecting economic entities, and not enough people who yet understand what it takes to change.
All of us have to do a better job of teaching young people not to let themselves be defined by the words other people use against them.
That's what she [Hillary Clinton] is done with everything all her life. She just makes something good happen, and that's what you need.
Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.
Most of the major mistakes I made in my life, I made when I was too tired to know what I was doing - both personally and professionally.
Nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up.
I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.
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.
Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.
There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have seen the Taj Mahal and love it and those who have not seen the Taj and love it.
We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither.
In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.
[George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.
I have always believed that the decision to have an abortion generally should be between a woman, her doctor, her conscience, and her God.
When you stifle human potential, when you don't invest in new ideas, it doesn't just cut off the people who are affected; it hurts us all.
The worst thing about not being president anymore is I was disoriented for three weeks because nobody every played a song when I walked in.
Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the rural areas.
If you're a Muslim and you love America and freedom and you hate terror, stay here and help us win and make a future together. We want you.
The economy has produced 6.1 million jobs since I became president, and if Michael Jordan comes back to the Bulls, it will be 6,100,001 jobs.
The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.
If you are focusing your anger at government, you are focusing your anger at all of us. Government is just a personification of this country.
Let's create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don't fight because of our differences.
One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old "sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me."
Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.
As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.
It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing.
If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.
In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago
You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any other country in the world. You vote for me and I'll give you family values.
Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values.
When I was a younger man and had a life, I owned an El Camino pickup in the '70s. It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had Astroturf in the back.
The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.
This will arguably be the third great revolution of America, if we can prove that we literally can live without having a dominant European culture.