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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 23, 1993

There is no income tax on over 90 percent of the small businesses in this country, and all of them will be eligible for a tax reduction if they invest more money in their businesses.

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Jul 23, 1993

That's right. We'll be able to say for the first time if you work full time and you have children in your home, you won't be poor any more.

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Jul 23, 1993

I want that torch to burn brightly, to burn away all the fog that's surrounded the debate on this economic program and let the real picture of positive change for America shine through.

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Jul 23, 1993

It is a very great mistake to think that [being President] is the thing that counts the most in America.

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Jul 22, 1993

I think she'll do very well. Let me also say while Chairman Shushkevich is here that I am very honored to have him here in the White House. And I want to thank him publicly for the support his country has given to the nonproliferation…

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Jul 22, 1993

No, and I don't think there is anything more to know. His family, his friends, his coworkers, we've been up real late two nights in a row now, remembering and crying and laughing and talking about him. I don't think there is anything else.

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Jul 22, 1993

That they are right to be worried. We need to change. And just in the next few days we will have an announcement on that. We've had some people working on it for several weeks now. When I went to the G-7 summit in Tokyo, I asked the Vice…

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Jul 22, 1993

I disagree that that's what they said. I realize that that's how one or two sentences were interpreted, but that's not so. We have aggressively committed ourselves to the process in Geneva. And if the Bosnian Government voluntarily signs…

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Jul 22, 1993

Let's see what happens there in the budget process. I went up there and talked to the conferees, and I told them what I thought the principles and the guideposts ought to be, and they're working on it.

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Jul 22, 1993

I don't know. That's what they're working on now. Senator Boren voted with some enthusiasm for the bill when it came out of the Senate. We'll be glad to work with him. But we'll just have to see what happens.

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Jul 22, 1993

I think what I said in the service and what I said to my staff: There are a lot of things that we're not in control of and a lot of mysteries we don't understand.

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Jul 22, 1993

This is one idea that all Americans should be able to agree on.

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Jul 22, 1993

No one will ever know whether there was anything any of us could have done to avoid this, but it certainly gave me a lot of renewed sense of humility.

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Jul 22, 1993

I'm very encouraged and I have very positive feelings about the progress made in the conference on the budget plan.

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Jul 22, 1993

He's a terrific friend, a great father, a great husband, a great lawyer.

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Jul 21, 1993

No. I really don't. And frankly, none of us do. His closest friends sat around discussing it last night at some length. None of us do. For more years than most of us would like to admit, in times of difficulty he was normally the Rock of…

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Jul 21, 1993

This is the minimum amount necessary to maintain this fleet of military useful cargo vessels at an acceptable rate of readiness.

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