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Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.

William J. Clinton

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William J. Clinton
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 19
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Just because you can't do everything, it doesn't mean you shouldn't do what you can.
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I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.
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Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American.
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There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government.
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Character is a journey, not a destination.
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Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.
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More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.
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When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.
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African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do.
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I want to say to you is that James Madison and Thomas Jefferson did not intend to drive a stake in the heart of religion and to drive it out of our public life. What they intended to do was to set up a system so that we could bring religion into our public life and into our private life without any of us telling the other what to do.
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I have said many times-if I hadn't been exposed to music as a child I don't think I would have been president.
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The pressure of the [election] campaign has a wonderful way of revealing your strengths and weaknesses.
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Our military superiority is so great - it's far greater than it was in the Gulf War, and the Gulf War was over in 100 hours after we bombed for 43 days. And so now they can bomb for a couple of days and then just roll into Baghdad... The odds are there's going to be a war and it's going to be not for very long.
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The first thing you ought to do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging. . . . Instead they are looking for a bigger shovel.
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From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystified me, the press thought the most important issue in the race was the middle class tax cut. I never did meet any voter who thought that.
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We should stay on the right track to the 21st century. Opportunity alone is not enough. I want to build an America in the 21st century in which all Americans take personal responsibility for themselves, their families, their communities and their country.
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We have a chance here to prove that [Rwanda], a country that almost slaughtered itself out of existence, can practice reconciliation, reorganize itself, focus on tomorrow and provide comprehensive, quality health care with minimal outside help.
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