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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Feb 20, 1993

I do. I do math with her quite often. I took a lot of algebra and advanced mathematics in high school, and then I didn't take any more after I went to college. So when Chelsea got into algebra, she started asking me to help. And so I've…

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Feb 20, 1993

I would have gone with my heart and with the law of the United States, which was that the children had a right to go to the school without regard to their race. I would have done what President Eisenhower did. I would have sent troops…

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Feb 20, 1993

It's very beautiful. And upstairs, just above it, there's another big oval room which President Franklin Roosevelt used as his office during World War II. And now we use it for formal receiving of foreign dignitaries. And it also looks…

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Feb 20, 1993

It's bigger than almost anybody in America lives in, but it's a beautiful house. You know it was started in 1792. President Washington authorized it to be built, and then before it was finished, actually, President Adams and his wife moved…

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Feb 20, 1993

We're going to cut $9 billion out of the administrative costs of the Federal Government.

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Feb 20, 1993

I have embraced as my cause the idea that every person in this country ought to be able to live up to the fullest of their God-given potential.

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Feb 20, 1993

If we do not change, then the good things that are happening today will not translate into jobs and opportunity for America.

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Feb 20, 1993

Unless California is revived, the Nation cannot recover economically.

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Feb 20, 1993

I intend to follow through on my pledge to make college loans available to all Americans based on their ability to repay when they take a job.

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Feb 20, 1993

We have to increase investment in our people and our future and reduce our debt at the same time.

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Feb 19, 1993

I'll tell you why not. I don't, and I'll tell you why not. When I was a boy, I went 2 years to a private school, to a wonderful Catholic school. And we paid tuition. And my folks were not wealthy. They were working people when we did it…

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Feb 19, 1993

Wait a minute. Okay. My question for you is do you believe that women who have abortions should be tried for first degree murder?

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Feb 19, 1993

I think that there will be a woman elected President in the not too distant future.

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Feb 19, 1993

$1 invested today will save $3 in avoidable health and education problems for these children in the future.

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Feb 19, 1993

$1 invested today saves $10 in the future in preventable childhood diseases.

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Feb 19, 1993

First of all, we're already paying a lot of money on health care.

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Feb 19, 1993

I think we can do a better job to preserve the diversity of the forests, the old forests up there, because most of it's already gone.

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Feb 19, 1993

I sent Congress my economic plan to create new jobs and to lift the living standards of Americans and their children.

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Feb 19, 1993

I support the Endangered Species Act, but I want to see it administered in a way that doesn't throw a large number of Americans out of work.

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Feb 19, 1993

I think we should try to provide some funds to local communities to fix those up first because that's cheaper and quicker.

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Feb 19, 1993

I do propose to raise income tax rates, but only for the top 1.2 percent of taxpayers.

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Feb 18, 1993

The price of my program is far lower with far higher results.

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