Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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William "Bill" Clinton Quotes Click here for William "Bill" Clinton books For Love of Politics: Bill and Hillary Clinton: The White House Years "There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America." "When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two—and didn't like it—and didn't inhale and never tried inhaling again." "I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I'm gonna say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinski. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time, never. These allegations are false." "No one wants to get this matter behind us more than I do—except maybe all the rest of the American people." "Indeed I did have a relationship with Ms Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong." "Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all." "African-Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do." "Our rich texture of racial, religious and political diversity will be a Godsend in the 21st century. Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together." "Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they came yesterday or walked this land a thousand years ago our great challenge for the 21st century is to find a way to be One America. We can meet all the other challenges if we can go forward as One America." "Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow." "When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly." "You should have disagreements with your leaders and your colleagues, but if it becomes immediately a question of questioning people's motives, and if immediately you decide that somebody who sees a whole new situation differently than you must be a bad person and somehow twisted inside, we are not going to get very far in forming a more perfect union." "Strength and wisdom are not opposing values." "The Israelis know that if the Iraqi or the Iranian army came across the Jordan River, I would personally grab a rifle, get in a ditch, and fight and die." "Today, future belongs to freedom, not to fear." "History has shown us, that you can't allow the mass extermination of people, and just sit by and watch it happen." |
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