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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Jul 25, 1993

More than any other one which has been presented by any party, it reduces the deficit in a way that is fair to all the American people.

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Jul 25, 1993

I mean, look at the system, we're the only country, the only advanced country that does what we do.

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Jul 25, 1993

We cannot continue to spend 30 percent more than any other country in the world of our income on health care.

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Jul 25, 1993

Under any conceivable deficit reduction plan, including mine, you can bring the deficit down for 5 years and then it starts to go up again in the sixth year.

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Jul 25, 1993

The tax burden is the way it is because we seek to reverse what happened in the 1980's, where taxes went up on the middle class and down on the wealthiest Americans.

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Jul 25, 1993

We can begin to establish high-performance workplaces as the models, the rules, if you will, for our country's new economy.

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Jul 25, 1993

If we don't do [NAFTA], anybody who wants to shut a plant down in America and move it to Mexico for lower wages can do that anyway.

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Jul 25, 1993

Until we find a way to reward the working poor and to move people from welfare to work, our economic recovery is going to be limited.

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Jul 25, 1993

Look at California if you want to see the consequences of 6 long years of cutting the defense budget.

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Jul 25, 1993

The Government's relationship to the private sector are changing the nature of that relationship.

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Jul 25, 1993

At the Tokyo meeting of the G-7, we made an agreement to drastically reduce tariffs on manufactured products.

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Jul 25, 1993

We have to stop borrowing so much from our future and start investing more to build it again.

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Jul 25, 1993

I understand that this morning's panels were quite interesting.

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Jul 25, 1993

I think you're going to see a big increase in the number of steel jobs if we have flexibility and competitiveness.

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Jul 25, 1993

Let’s vote. I don’t have to win them all, but let’s make decisions.

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Jul 25, 1993

I can't promise anybody that's in a tough global economy job security.

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Jul 25, 1993

The most precious asset any nation has is the people who live there.

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Jul 25, 1993

Our responsibility, it seems to me, as I said in my speech, is to create the most favorable economic conditions.

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Jul 25, 1993

Every child born in this country should be able to grow up to be successful.

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Jul 25, 1993

I'm telling you, no decision has been made about any of this stuff.

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Jul 25, 1993

All of them, if the program passes, will have the expensing provisions of the Code, that is, they'll be able to just immediately write off $20,000 rather than $10,000 of expensing.

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