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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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Mar 16, 2011

the administration's offshore drilling policies were ridiculous.

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Mar 7, 2011

The failure to try to stop the Rwanda's tragedy became 'one of the greatest regrets of my presidency.'

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Dec 29, 2010

We must not, and we will not surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice. We will make it tougher for illegal aliens to get into our country.

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Dec 9, 2010

In my opinion, this is a good bill and I hope that my fellow Democrats will support it. I thank the Republican leaders for agreeing to include things that were important to the president.

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Dec 9, 2010

In my opinion, this is a good bill, and I hope that my fellow Democrats will support it. I thanked the Republican leaders for agreeing to -- to include things that were important to the President. There's never a perfect bipartisan bill in…

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Nov 29, 2010

We must not and we will not surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice. We will make it tougher for illegal aliens to get into our country.

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Nov 29, 2010

We must not, and we will not surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice. We will make it tougher for illegal aliens to get into our country.

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Oct 27, 2010

I don't want to betray my friendship with him, and I think he's great, and therefore he should say about it what he wants to.

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Oct 27, 2010

Well, he would say that. He wants Marco Rubio to win. And he's just doing his job and that's a bunch of politics.

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Oct 27, 2010

He's trying to decide what to do, and I talked to him and I told him that we went through everything; we talked about it a couple times. And I said in the end, you know, he would have to do what he thought was right. He'd have to do what…

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Oct 27, 2010

Well, he would say that, he wants Marco Rubio to win and he's just doing his job and that's a bunch of politics.

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Sep 19, 2010

A lot of the objections that have been raised against it would just wipe away. They said, we are dedicating this whose Muslim -- this Islamic center to the memory of the people who were killed on 9/11, who share our faith.

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Sep 12, 2010

We need Charlie to go back to Washington to work with President Obama to say yes.

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Sep 12, 2010

We need Charlie to go back in Washington to work with President Obama to say 'yes'.

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Sep 12, 2010

I urge you now to be there for him in this Tuesday's Democratic primary.

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Jul 15, 2010

I think that they're all having economic trouble and they want to hold their money as long as possible.

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Jul 15, 2010

I'm going to call all those governments and say, the ones who said they'll give money to support the Haitian government, I'm going to try to get them to give the money.

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Jul 15, 2010

I think that they're all having economic trouble, and they want to hold their money as long as possible.

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Jul 15, 2010

I'm going to call all those governments and say the ones who said they'll give money to support the Haitian government I'm going to try to get them to give the money and I'm going to try to get the others to give me a schedule for when…

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Jul 12, 2010

I haven't had any donor tell me that they have not decided to do it.

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Jul 12, 2010

I'm going to call all those governments and say, the ones who said they will give money to support the Haitian government, I want to try to get them to give the money.

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Jul 12, 2010

I think that they're all having economic trouble and they want to hold their money as long as possible.

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