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 15, 1992

He has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.

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Jul 15, 1992

George Bush, if you won't use our power to help America, step aside. I will.

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Jul 15, 1992

The Republicans have campaigned against big government for a generation, but have you noticed? They've run this big government for a generation and they haven't changed a thing.

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Jul 15, 1992

The choice we offer is not conservative or liberal. In many ways, it is not even Republican or Democratic. It is different. It is new. And it will work.

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Jul 15, 1992

In the end, my fellow Americans, this New Covenant simply asks us all to be Americans again—old-fashioned Americans for a new time. Opportunity, responsibility, community.

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Jul 15, 1992

We have gone from first to 13th in the world in wages since Ronald Reagan and Bush have been in office.

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Jul 15, 1992

I proudly accept your nomination for President of the United States.

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Jul 15, 1992

Our country has fallen so far so fast that just a few months ago the Japanese prime minister actually said he felt sympathy for the United States.

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Jul 15, 1992

This election is about putting power back in your hands and putting government back on your side. It's about putting people first.

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Jul 15, 1992

Now that we have changed the world, it's time to change America.

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Jul 15, 1992

I do not want to return to the time when we made criminals of women and their doctors.

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Jul 15, 1992

We don't have a person to waste, and yet for too long politicians have told the most of us that are doing all right that what's really wrong with America is the rest of us.

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Jul 15, 1992

When I am your President, the rest of the world will not look down on us with pity but up to us with respect again.

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Jul 15, 1992

I believe this difficult and painful decision should be left to the women of America.

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Jul 15, 1992

For too long those who play by the rules and keep the faith have gotten the shaft, and those who cut corners and cut deals have been rewarded.

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Jul 15, 1992

We're losing our farms at a rapid rate, and he has no commitment to keep family farms in the family, but I do.

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Jul 15, 1992

I am a product of that middle class, and when I am President, you will be forgotten no more.

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Jul 15, 1992

The most important family policy, urban policy, labor policy, minority policy, and foreign policy America can have is an expanding entrepreneurial economy of high-wage, high-skilled jobs.

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Jul 15, 1992

If we want to use government to help people, we have got to make it work again.

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Jul 15, 1992

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

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