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 23, 1994

This crime bill is the most important effort ever made by the United States Government to help people in their communities fight crime.

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Jun 23, 1994

We can do more than complain about what's wrong; we can actually get together and take action to do something right.

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Jun 23, 1994

We did not get to be the oldest and most successful democracy in human history by being cynics.

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Jun 23, 1994

I justify it because of the opposition policies of the Republican Party and all the special interest groups that have raised and spent far more money against us.

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Jun 23, 1994

I'd like to emphasize that the things that are within my control, requirements and limits on my administration and what can be done with regard to lobbying, are stricter now than they have ever been in American history.

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Jun 23, 1994

We believe that it will come out with 100,000 police, with 'three strikes and you're out,' with prevention programs, with summer jobs for the kids and midnight basketball, the after-school programs, with the assault weapons ban.

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Jun 23, 1994

America now has—we have the strongest economic performance of any of the advanced countries in the world.

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Jun 23, 1994

Hillary joins me in asking all Americans to keep the families of these distinguished Air Force officers in their prayers.

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Jun 23, 1994

We are working on passing a crime bill we talked about today.

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Jun 23, 1994

Thank you. It's good to be on KMOX, and it's good to be coming back to St. Louis.

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Jun 22, 1994

Listen, it isn't all Republicans. I've had Republican doctors, Republican nurses, Republican home health operators, Republican business people come up to me and say, ``I support what you're doing. We have got to have universal health…

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Jun 22, 1994

No. No, as long as the agreement--like I said, we've been friends a long time. The agreement was that he would faithfully communicate our position. I am absolutely convinced he did it, and I'm absolutely convinced now that they have met…

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Jun 22, 1994

Oh, I have. I called him, talked to him about the letter. We had a very good talk, told him again I was glad he went, and I thought it was a trip worth taking, a risk worth taking, and I was very pleased.

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Jun 22, 1994

Well, that was a big part of the statement, of course, of the letter that we got, not just that there would be an agreement to freeze the program but that the agreement be verifiable. The IAEA inspectors and the monitoring equipment on the…

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Jun 22, 1994

No. The only thing that we said was that we would suspend our efforts to pursue sanctions if there was a verifiable freeze on the nuclear program while the talks continued, which included no refueling of the reactor and no reprocessing…

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