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William J. Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Prior to the presidency, he was the Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992. A member of the Democratic Party, Clinton was ideologically a New Democrat and many of his policies reflected a centrist "Third Way" political philosophy.

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When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.

Feeling, Insecure, People, Strong, Weak

I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.

Funny, Inhale, Inspirational, Marijuana, Tried

History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation

Champion, Dignity, Freedom, Nelson, Remember

We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.

Democracy, Historical, Peace, Supporting, Take, Transition

We must work tirelessly to make sure that every boy and girl in America who is up for adoption has a family waiting to reach him or her. . . This is a season of miracles, and perhaps there is no greater miracle than finding a loving home for a child who needs one.

Adoption, America, Children, Girl, Home, Miracles

More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.

Leader, Leaders, People, Think, Thinking

What happened to us in September, 2001, is a microcosmic but painful and powerful example of the fact we live in an inter-dependent world that is not yet an integrated global community.

2001, Community, Example, Integrated, Powerful, World

Music, to me, was - is - representative of everything I like most in life. It's beautiful and fun, but very rigorous. If you wanted to be good you had to work like crazy. It was a real relationship between effort and reward. My musical life experiences were just as important to me, in terms of forming my development, as my political experiences or my academic life.

Beautiful, Crazy, Everything, Fun, Like

I think the Democrats are going to have to be willing to give up, maybe, some short-term political gain by whipping up fears on some of these things - if it's a reasonable Social Security proposal, a reasonable Medicare proposal. We've got to deal with these things. You cannot have health care devour the economy.

Devour, Economy, Giving Up, Political, Thinking, Whipping

I issued a number of denials to people I thought needed to hear them

Humorous, Issued, Number, Numbers, Stupid, Thought

If you are focusing your anger at government, you are focusing your anger at all of us. Government is just a personification of this country.

Country, Government, Personification, Anger, Focusing

When I leave the office on January 20th, I will leave even more idealistic than I was the day I took the oath of office.

20Th, January, Oath, Oath Of Office, Presidency

When you're a former president, you have much less power, but you have a lifetime of experience and contacts and if you've got the energy, you can bring influence to bear on a small but still fairly substantial number of things where you can concentrate on it because you don't have to change the subject when you wake up in the morning and there's something else in the newspaper.

Energy, Experience, Fairly, Morning, Number, President

Music can give you your dreams. It will teach you hard work, it will break your heart and make you so happy, you can't stand it. . . . I don't think I'd have been president if it hadn't been for music.

Dream, Happy, Hard, Hard Work, Heart, Work

Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.

Biggest, Golf, Life, Self, Way, Wounds

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If 'is' means 'is and never has been' that's one thing - if it means 'there is none', that was a completely true statement.

Completely, Has Beens, Mean, Meaning, Science, True

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

Believe, Believing, Birthday, Came, Happened, Support

These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does life's meaning also require negative comparison to others?

Association, History, Identity, People, Religion, Require

This is a huge problem. If we don't deal with this within just a few years, you will have island nations flooded; you will have the agricultural balance of most countries completely changed; you will have a dramatic increase in the number of severe, unmanageable weather events. . . And the good news is that we can now deal with this problem - and strengthen our economic growth, not weaken it.

Completely, Country, Events, Numbers, Severe, Weather

One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.

Careful, Caring, Future, Predictions, Think, Thinking

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