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I mean my life was a combination of fascination with other people, with politics, and with policy, and the impact of government decisions on people's lives and the life of our nation and the life of the world.

William J. Clinton

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William J. Clinton
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 19
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When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.
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I want to help communities put welfare recipients to work right now, without delay, repairing schools, making their neighborhoods clean and safe, making them shine again. There's lots of work to be done out there. Our cities can find ways to put people to work and bring dignity and strength back to these families.
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President Obama's approach embodies the values, the ideas and the direction America has to take to build the 21st-century version of the American Dream: a nation of shared opportunities, shared responsibilities, shared prosperity, a shared sense of community.
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A few years ago, (Barack Obama) would have been getting us coffee.
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I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.
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[It] has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from immigrants.
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I might not have been President if it hadn't been for school music. Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music programs.
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The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the end, all the world's wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of the human spirit.
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Keep your eyes on the prize and don't turn back.
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I'm very proud that the first bill I had the opportunity to sign into law as President was the Family and Medical Leave Act No parent should ever have to choose between work and family between earning a decent wage and caring for a child.
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Let's create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don't fight because of our differences.
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We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither.
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Food is a big bargain in America, and you can go to these places, we all like them, and you get big portions, and they taste good. But they're higher in fat than ever before. And same thing has happened, by the way, though, to school menus. A lot of school lunch menus have more fat and more sugar than ever before.
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To avoid having bad things happen, learning to manage your anger and to actually share how you really feel about something, and get it behind you is one of the most important aspects of growing up.
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So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.
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Every American should have above average income, and my Administration is going to see they get it.
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Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds it changes the odds.
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We find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well.
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