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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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Jan 3, 2016

It's my job to get our Democrats fired up to turn them out for Hillary Clinton and there is going to be someone who wants to take the election away from you.

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Oct 22, 2015

I have never seen so much expended on so little. The other party doesn't want to run against her and if they do, they'd like her as mangled up as possible.

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Oct 22, 2015

I have no confidence in my political feel anymore. I've just been out of it a long time.

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Oct 6, 2015

This is a good deal for the United States. North Korea will freeze and then dismantle its nuclear program. South Korea and our other allies will be better protected. The entire world will be safer as we slow the spread of nuclear weapons.

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Jun 10, 2015

She believed that part of the job as the secretary of state was to advance America's economic interests around the world.

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Jun 10, 2015

I don't know. You never know what people's motives are. But in this case, I'm pretty sure that everybody that gave to Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake, saw what they saw on television and were horrified and wanted to make a…

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Jun 10, 2015

Nobody even suggested or talked about it or thought about it until the political season began and somebody said well, what about this?

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Jun 10, 2015

I want to address a couple of issues having to do with the Clinton Foundation since it has been in the news a lot lately.

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May 18, 2015

In 1997 the Adoption and Safe Families Act was created due to the massive number of children languishing in foster care.

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May 18, 2015

This created a bounty on our children's heads and the adoption rate quickly doubled.

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Apr 21, 2015

The labor side agreement negotiated by our administration will have the agreement of force for social progress as well as economic growth.

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Mar 17, 2015

The president's selection of a child of Pamela to become ambassador to Japan in 2013 was a sign of Asia's growing significance in U.S. foreign policy.

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Feb 3, 2015

Well, what I do is try to tell a series of stories in order to make more complex points.

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Dec 11, 2014

The fundamental problem you have anywhere is when people think their lives or the lives of their children don't matter, that they're somehow disposable like a paper napkin after lunch or restroom or something. It just doesn't matter. And…

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Sep 22, 2014

As he strives to stop bad things from happening around the world, the rest of us are supposed to do more to make good things happen.

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Sep 16, 2014

Governments can have a profound effect on the growth of electronic commerce. By their actions they can facilitate electronic trade or inhibit it.

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Jul 24, 2014

Hamas was perfectly well aware of what would happen if they started raining rockets in Israel.

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Jul 17, 2014

It's awful, sickening what happened to so many gifted people.

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Jul 17, 2014

This is gathering. We do this on a regular basis. We have this International AIDS Conferences and I tried to go all because I'm always so inspired by what other people were doing and what we can learn from them.

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May 5, 2014

Indeed I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact it was wrong.

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Apr 9, 2014

A lot of these so-called multi-stakeholders are really governments that want to gag people and restrict access to the Internet.

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Apr 1, 2014

A lot of people have been trying to take this authority away from the U.S. for the sole purpose of cracking down on Internet freedom, and limiting it and having government protect their backsides instead of empowering their people.

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Feb 9, 2014

Indeed I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact it was wrong.

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Jan 15, 2014

The idea behind a free trade agreement is not so much to let other countries sell their goods and services to us; they're already doing it.

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