Political Quotes

Bill Clinton

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Bill Jefferson Clinton served as the 42nd President of the United States from January 20, 1993, to January 20, 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously held the position of Governor of Arkansas from 1983 to 1992. During his presidency, Clinton focused on several key policies, including welfare reform, economic growth, and healthcare reform. His administration is noted for achieving a budget surplus and for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

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Jun 24, 1994

Wait and see what the conference committee does. They asked me to give them a few more days to work on it, and we're going to see what they----

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Jun 24, 1994

Well, I met earlier this week with Senator Biden and Chairman Brooks, and we talked about it. We think that the essential elements are intact. We believe that it will come out with 100,000 police, with ``three strikes and you're out,''…

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Jun 24, 1994

After months of debate, health care reform is very much alive.

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Jun 24, 1994

I want to send my condolences and prayers to the families of the airmen.

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Jun 24, 1994

Momentum is building toward a solution for the health care crisis.

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Jun 24, 1994

I believe every working American deserves these same benefits and that same guarantee.

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Jun 24, 1994

Make no mistake, measures that are half-hearted would at best, at best, guarantee that things stay only about as good as they are now.

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Jun 24, 1994

Hary Truman said it best about 50 years ago when he said, 'There is no other way to assure that the average American family has a decent chance for adequate medical care.'

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Jun 24, 1994

The whole purpose of our economic program is to make it possible for hard-working Americans to reap the potential of a vastly changing world economy.

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Jun 23, 1994

I'm elated, aren't you? That's right, the United States won in California. It's great. I'm so excited about it. I went to the opening game in Chicago, you know, between Germany and Bolivia. And my daughter got me interested in soccer years…

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Jun 23, 1994

I'm in California a lot, you know, and I expect to be back a lot. And I'm encouraged by the signs that our economic program is beginning to take hold in California. I'm encouraged by the very rapid work that was done to get the investments…

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Jun 23, 1994

Let me say first it's a pleasure for me to have Kathleen Brown here in the White House, to have an opportunity to talk about the many issues and challenges facing California, what we can do to work on them together. I want to congratulate…

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Jun 23, 1994

Our children's lives will be measured by the extent to which we choose to do and to pull together.

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Jun 23, 1994

I expect that the conference committee will come out with it reasonably soon, and I think it will go through both Houses.

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Jun 23, 1994

I just don't believe you. We never hear that on the news. I just don't believe you.

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Jun 23, 1994

The deaths of these superb airmen remind us as a nation of the hazardous risks involved in maintaining the readiness and proficiency of our Armed Forces.

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Jun 23, 1994

The job of Government is not to give the American people a handout but to give the American people a hand up.

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Jun 23, 1994

I was profoundly saddened to learn tonight of the tragic aircraft accident at Fairchild Air Force Base.

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Jun 23, 1994

Absolutely. I think there's too much cynicism and too much intolerance.

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Jun 23, 1994

In order to be in the Summer of Service, you have to believe that you can make a difference.

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Jun 23, 1994

Even if that person, he or she, stays with the same employer.

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