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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I think that the country needs a debate that's not a screaming match. . . . And I think too many times we have these arguments on these talk shows where they're trying to get ratings by generating heat, when we ought to be trying to generate more light.
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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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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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When you're a president, or prime minister of Canada.... your life is a constant battle between trying to pursue the agenda you (promised) to implement and trying to deal with all the incoming fire, the events of the day that you can't control,
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These people are fighting for their lives and they are fighting for the lives of their children and they are trying to get their act together, ... It would be unconscionable if we don't do something to help.
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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 thought that my virtual obsession with him was well placed, and I was full of regret that I didn't get him.
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I think it's very important that Americans understand... tax cuts are always popular, but about half of these tax cuts since 2001 have gone to people in my income group, the top 1 percent. I've gotten four tax cuts. They're responsible for this big structural deficit, and they're not going away, the deficits aren't.
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I think we all ought to be questioning all the time and learning and growing. And I think that's what we need, but it's not my deal, I don't think.
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I think the White House should have said something about it sooner.
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I think there should be an analysis of what happened. The time to do that is after some time passes.
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I think Felt believed that there was a chance that this thing would be covered up,
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We must work toward the day when citizen service is the common expectation and common experience of every American.
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We must protect our citizens' privacy -- the bulwark of personal liberty, the safeguard of individual creativity.