Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clintonis an American politician who was the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Clinton was previously Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992, and the Arkansas Attorney General from 1977 to 1979. A member of the Democratic Party, ideologically Clinton was a New Democrat, and many of his policies reflected a centrist "Third Way" political philosophy...
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth19 August 1946
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In view of the American position, I don't see how your prime minister can be anything but really publicly very tough on this. I don't think he's got an option,
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Going to the chapel and we're gonna get married,
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John had a dream of black people as successful and smart and beautiful and heroic, a vision of keeping hope alive by showing black people as faces of hope. He never gave up. He never gave in. He once said 'At the end of the day, we're all just trying to give people hope.' I liked John Johnson. I thought he was a strong and wise, straight forward and kind man.
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Recovery is going to take years. Fifty thousand people are still living in tents. I hope you will think of them.
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I am gratified by what we've achieved here, ... But I hope you leave here with a sense of humility and a sense of how much better we can do.
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If we really wanted to do it right, we would have had lots of buses lined up to take them out,
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I think it's a mistake for them to try and blame us for it, though, because we actually have a clear and unbroken record of trying to clear up a lot of these corporate abuses. . . . There was corporate malfeasance both before he took office and after. The difference is I actually tried to do something about it, and their party stopped it.
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I think he's trying to build goodwill, which is important. Maybe the last few years have bled enough poison out of the system where it will be possible.
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Globalization is not something we can hold off or turn off . . . it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature -- like wind or water.
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No I disagree with that. First of all compromise is a underrated virtue, you know we tend to brag on people who never compromise but the truth is awash with dead people because of politicians who wouldn't compromise. I think sometimes compromise is the greatest virtue.
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Their strategy is to talk about compassion. It's a brilliant strategy. It's a pretty package. If they wrap it tight enough, no one will open it before Christmas.
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Our economic success was not a matter of chance, it was a matter of choice.
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It is idiotic to contemplate a future that is anything other than one of cooperation between China and the U.S. for future prosperity. But on the other hand, it will be foolish not to prepare for the worst.
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A lot of places can be the wrong place at the wrong time