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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Oct 7, 1999

We should deal with this on the merits. They should agree to a process, and they control when it comes up.

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Oct 7, 1999

Public Law 106-65National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000

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Oct 7, 1999

Thank you for welcoming me back for my fifth trip to Canada since I've been President.

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Oct 7, 1999

We must work together to instill in our youth a sense of compassion, tolerance, and self-respect.

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Oct 7, 1999

I do not anticipate that the embarked Marines will be deployed ashore.

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Oct 7, 1999

One of our greatest challenges is to provide health coverage for the almost 11 million American children who are still uninsured.

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Oct 7, 1999

We have always felt that the National Government would never have all the answers, and that the States should be seen as our friends and our partners.

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Oct 7, 1999

I do hereby proclaim October 10 through October 16, 1999, as National School Lunch Week.

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Oct 7, 1999

It is fitting that the first global conference would be held here in North America, because federalism began here.

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Oct 7, 1999

It is, however, our objective to redeploy U.S. forces as soon as circumstances permit.

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Oct 7, 1999

I think it is quite an interesting thing that we have this impressive array of people to come to a conference on federalism.

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Oct 7, 1999

Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children, and proper nourishment comes first in attaining this welfare.

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Oct 7, 1999

Public Law 106-68To make certain technical and other corrections relating to the Centennial of Flight Commemoration Act (36 U.S.C. 143 note; 112 Stat. 3486 et seq.)

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Oct 7, 1999

I urge all Americans to express their love and appreciation for the children of our Nation on this day and on every day throughout the year.

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Oct 6, 1999

This year's winners of the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal defined in their own unique ways a part of who we are as a people and what we're about as a nation as we enter a new century and a new millennium.

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Oct 6, 1999

With imagination, wit and also with a steel trap mind and deep conviction, Garrison Keillor has brought us together.

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Oct 6, 1999

It gives America a chance to recognize our sons and daughters who have enriched our lives, made us laugh, made us think, made us cry, lifted us up when we were down.

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Oct 6, 1999

If I could make Keillor laugh, I knew that I had achieved.

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Oct 6, 1999

Why don't we make up our mind we're going to make this the safest big country in the world—that is a worthy goal—and come up with the resources and the plans necessary to do it?

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Oct 6, 1999

We have a moral responsibility to future generations to answer that question correctly.

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Oct 6, 1999

Thank you for making New York the biggest, strongest union city in America.

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