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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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Sep 9, 1996

No, I think Americans, without regard to party, believe in aggressive disaster relief. I would hope they do. We've been through a 500-year flood in the Middle West, the big flooding in the Pacific Northwest, the earthquake, and all the…

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Sep 9, 1996

Absolutely, sure it is. Secretary Babbitt pointed out that actually a lot of the major investments that were approved by the Congress to fix what was done before have not been made yet. So they have almost all their major capital…

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Sep 9, 1996

Ladies and gentlemen, we're going in for a reception now. But I wanted to say one thing. Rosa Parks was delayed in Detroit just as many of these people were delayed trying to get here because of the traffic. So we will have another time to…

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Sep 9, 1996

This has been a dream of American leaders going back to Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy.

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Sep 9, 1996

The lapse of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund taxes this year underscores the need to find a long-term, new funding solution, for the FAA.

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Sep 9, 1996

I propose also to give private placement firms the kinds of things that many Americans use to find better jobs.

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Sep 9, 1996

This model, this kind of encounter we're having here, is going to have to occur in every community in the country if we're going to meet the very ambitious goals of the bill.

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Sep 9, 1996

I request heads of executive departments and agencies who have Federal civilian employees in the areas designated as disaster areas to use their discretion to excuse from duty any such employee who is faced with a personal emergency.

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Sep 8, 1996

Arthur Flemming was a close friend to me and the First Lady. He was a wonderful human being and great public servant who thought of nothing more than the health and well being of his fellow Americans. He transcended party, generation, and…

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Sep 6, 1996

Thank you. Dr. Lyons, thank you for your support. Thank you for exciting the crowd here. Audience members. Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!

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Sep 4, 1996

Israel and Chairman Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Authority September 4, 1996 I welcome the meeting today between Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and PLO Chairman Arafat. The meeting between the two leaders is a very important step in…

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Sep 4, 1996

No. The key question is--well, first of all, the situation in northern Iraq seems to have changed. There has been a withdrawal of the forces, a dispersal of the forces. But it's too soon to say that this is permanent or that further action…

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Sep 4, 1996

There was a fixing on one of our planes that occurred from a site north of the 33d parallel, but it does not. We believe we can fly this expanded no-fly zone now. It gives us an attempt to measure--or it gives us the capacity to measure…

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Sep 4, 1996

I don't think it's dead; I think quite to the contrary. We have received good support from the British. The Prime Minister of Canada called me last night. The German Chancellor issued a strong statement. I think that our Arab partners…

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Sep 4, 1996

I have received the reports of the explosions; I do not know anything about them. I can tell you that they are not the product of any action that we have taken.

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Sep 4, 1996

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

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Sep 3, 1996

The present deployments and the things that we have seen in support of them convince me that at least he has maintained the potential to take further military action in the region. That is the problem. He said, ``Well, we took our soldiers…

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Sep 3, 1996

Well, as always with Saddam Hussein, it depends entirely on what he does, not on what he says but what he does. And we were trying to have very limited damage to human beings and trying to take an action which would show our resolve and…

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Sep 2, 1996

Will you help me keep this economy going and growing? Don't you want more jobs and higher income? Audience members. Yes!

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Sep 2, 1996

I think so, too. Happy Labor Day! Thank you for letting me be a part of it. Thank you, Senator Herb Kohl, and thank you, Senator Russ Feingold, for representing the people of Wisconsin and the people of the United States here. I know that…

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Sep 2, 1996

Thank you. Wow! Thanks for the welcome. Can you keep this spirit until November? Can you spread it to other people in Wisconsin? Audience members. Yes!

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Sep 2, 1996

I want college tuition to be tax deductible up to $10,000 a year. I want to give unemployed and underemployed workers access to a skill grant worth up to $2600 a year, so that if you lose your job, you're changing jobs, and you need more…

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