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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Apr 19, 1994

It wouldn't affect many people. But as I said, we know that a small percentage of the people are serious repeat offenders. A small percentage of the criminals are serious repeat offenders. And if this is drawn right, it will make us safer…

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Apr 19, 1994

Well, that's not where I thought you were going with the question. Good for you. Ms. Soren. He's obviously talking about the caning in Singapore.

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Apr 19, 1994

Ultimately, this conflict still must be settled by the parties themselves.

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Apr 19, 1994

Surely, those of us who have tangible, personal experience from the benefits of immunization can at long last solve this problem.

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Apr 19, 1994

I believe the evidence does not condemn the conduct or knowledge of Admiral Kelso sufficient to justify taking the two stars away from him.

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Apr 19, 1994

This gives us a chance to put all of our actions where our words are.

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Apr 18, 1994

All I can tell you is what I said. I don't make a practice of commenting on what they do. There is no evidence of inflation, but there is evidence that economic growth is stronger even than we thought, say 2 months ago. And historically…

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Apr 18, 1994

I want to tell you what your fearless leader had just said to me, in a way that you couldn't hear over the microphone-- [laughter]. He said, I want you to have this jogging suit because I keep seeing you running in running shorts, and I…

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Apr 18, 1994

What happens in South Africa is of vital importance to us all.

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Apr 18, 1994

The possibility of misunderstanding in this area is so great anyway.

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Apr 18, 1994

It is rare for people over 70 to commit those serious crimes.

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Apr 17, 1994

No, not based on anything that's happened so far. We have said to the Russians that if they want to discuss that with us, that of course we would be willing to discuss it if certain conditions on the ground were met. But continued Serb…

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Apr 17, 1994

It depends on NATO. It depends on what the U.N. commander on the ground, General Rose wants. But their conclusions were twofold. One is that with regard to Gorazde itself, it wouldn't necessarily be possible now for close air support to…

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Apr 17, 1994

There's one, I think. I think there was a news report that there was at least one tank sighted. But I want to say that we have no reports at the moment that the status of Gorazde has changed. Thank you.

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Apr 17, 1994

I don't want to comment on anything definitively with regard to Gorazde, because we have been getting reports over the last 4 and 5 hours, kind of mixed reports. But on balance, the last report I got was encouraging in terms of an…

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Apr 17, 1994

I know we can do that; I'm going to talk more about it in a minute.

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Apr 17, 1994

That's a pretty good record for a Congress and an administration working together.

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Apr 17, 1994

Long-term interest rates should say, well, there's not going to be any inflation in the economy, and we've got good growth so interest rates ought to stay down, not go up.

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Apr 17, 1994

There are millions of Americans who have disabilities that if they were able to have some in-home care would save us money.

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Apr 17, 1994

I think he did the best he could with the resources he had under the facts as they existed.

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Apr 17, 1994

This is an exciting time in our Nation's Capital, because people are actually working on the problems facing America.

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