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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Jul 15, 1992

When I am your President, the rest of the world will not look down on us with pity but up to us with respect again.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Jul 15, 1992

He has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Jul 15, 1992

I am a product of that middle class, and when I am President, you will be forgotten no more.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Jul 15, 1992

He's talked a lot about drugs, but he hasn't helped people on the front line to wage that war on drugs and crime. But I will.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Jul 15, 1992

We're losing our farms at a rapid rate, and he has no commitment to keep family farms in the family, but I do.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Jul 15, 1992

George Bush, if you won't use our power to help America, step aside. I will.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Jul 15, 1992

We have gone from first to 13th in the world in wages since Ronald Reagan and Bush have been in office.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Jul 15, 1992

I am well aware that all those millions of people who rallied to Ross Perot's cause wanted to be in an army of patriots for change. Tonight I say to them, join us, and together we will revitalize America.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Jul 15, 1992

A government that is leaner, not meaner; a government that expands opportunity, not bureaucracy.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Jul 15, 1992

That's why we need a new approach to government, a government that offers more empowerment and less entitlement.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Jul 15, 1992

We've gotten to where we've nearly them'ed ourselves to death. Them, and them, and them.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Jul 15, 1992

In the end, my fellow Americans, this New Covenant simply asks us all to be Americans again- old-fashioned Americans for a new time. Opportunity, responsibility, community.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Jul 15, 1992

I do not want to return to the time when we made criminals of women and their doctors.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Jul 15, 1992

We don't have a person to waste, and yet for too long politicians have told the most of us that are doing all right that what's really wrong with America is the rest of us.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Jul 15, 1992

This election is about putting power back in your hands and putting government back on your side. It's about putting people first.

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Lamar Alexander
@lamaralexander· Republican · TN· Sep 30, 1991

But with particular emphasis on vocational programs and schools, which would benefit most from closer oversight. . . . The Federal Government should set the parameters for certain standards, such as outcome measures, for use by States in…

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