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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Jun 27, 1999

In fact, the budget surplus for 1999 will be $99 billion, the largest as a share of our economy since 1951.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Jun 20, 1999

We must build a Europe with no frontline states, a Europe undivided, democratic, and at peace for the first time in history.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Feb 23, 1999

It is fitting that we are having this dinner here, almost 200 years later, to chart a new century and to explore our relationship with Ghana and with Africa.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Feb 18, 1999

Today's ceremony is about a moment in 1882 when our Government did not do all it could do to protect an individual American's freedom.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Aug 2, 1998

I hope when the history books are written, it will look like a pretty good investment that was made in a young man from a modest family in a small town a long time ago.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Jan 7, 1998

At that moment in our history, John Quincy Adams... was the embodiment of the Nation's opposition to slavery.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Jan 21, 1997

You are going to live in the most exciting period of time in human history.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Jan 16, 1997

The World War II Memorial will commemorate one of the great defining passages in our Nation's history.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Jan 13, 1997

When the history of our time is written, Bill Perry may well be recorded as the most productive, effective Secretary of Defense the United States ever had.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Jan 9, 1997

Those efforts and the stronger economy have led to the biggest reduction in welfare rolls in the history of this country.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Oct 21, 1996

I strongly believe in the central finding of this Act, that it is important to learn all we can about this terrible era so that we can prevent such a catastrophe from ever happening again.

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