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 18, 1995

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to enhance the quality and effectiveness of security in and protection of buildings and facilities in the United…

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Oct 18, 1995

The Administrator shall be responsible for monitoring Federal agency compliance with the policies and recommendations of the Committee.

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Oct 18, 1995

There is hereby established within the executive branch the Interagency Security Committee.

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Oct 18, 1995

The Congress is about to take some votes that I believe will move this country in the wrong direction.

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Oct 16, 1995

It isn't racist for a parent to pull his or her child close when walking through a high-crime neighborhood... it isn't racist for whites to assert that the culture of welfare dependency... cannot be broken by social programs unless there…

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Oct 16, 1995

The truth is that African-Americans still make on average about 60 percent of what white people do... more than half of African-American children live in poverty.

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Oct 16, 1995

White America must understand and acknowledge the roots of black pain... it is beyond wrong when law-abiding black parents have to tell their law-abiding children to fear the police.

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Oct 16, 1995

Today we face a choice... the path of courage and wisdom, leads to unity, to reconciliation.

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Oct 16, 1995

The rift we see before us... exists in spite of the remarkable progress black Americans have made.

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Oct 16, 1995

I am hopeful about America... we will do the right thing.

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Oct 16, 1995

My goal is to do this in such a way that the strengths of this community and the strengths of this great resource will generate even more employment and more stability for you at the end of this 5-year process.

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Oct 16, 1995

We believe that if we do this right, we can generate even more employment in this area as we go through this transition period.

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Oct 16, 1995

I hope that you have seen the commitment of the administration to try to maintain employment at appropriate levels.

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Oct 16, 1995

The most important thing, I think, to announce today for the San Antonio community is that we have reached an agreement on joint use of the base.

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Oct 16, 1995

Do you really want those thousands of kids out of the chance to be in the Head Start program?

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Oct 16, 1995

We are committed to implementing that agreement on joint use in good faith.

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Oct 16, 1995

I wonder what all of those other Presidents did and why they didn't do more with this incredibly flexible office.

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Oct 16, 1995

It is nuts for us to cut education if we're going to do that.

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Oct 15, 1995

This moment in which the racial divide is so clearly out in the open need not be a setback for us.

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Oct 15, 1995

We can balance the budget without stepping on our values and trampling on our future and walking away from our obligations to one another.

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