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The problem with ideology is if you got an ideology, you already got your mind made up, you know all the answers, and that makes evidence irrelevant and argument a waste of time, so you tend to govern by assertion and attack. The problem with that is that discourages thinking and gives you bad results.

William J. Clinton

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William J. Clinton
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 19
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I could never allow [tax] cuts that devastate education for our children, that pollute our environment, that end the guarantee of health care for those who are served under Medicaid, that end our duty or violate our duty to our parents through Medicare. I just couldn't do that. As long as I'm president, I'll never let it happen.
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But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.
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If you want to have a good life you have to have some constructive outlet for your feelings.
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You can't blame the administration and the Republicans for taking us back to deficits, for spending the Social Security surplus and assaulting the environment. That's what they promised to do in the last election.
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I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.
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You live in the age of interdependence. Borders don't count for much or stop much, good or bad, anymore.
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I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow.
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Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the United States. And the more disease there is, the more political unrest there will be, leading to more Darfurs, which the U.S. will have to pay to fix.
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We will reduce the White House staff by 25 percent
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I issued a number of denials to people I thought needed to hear them
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I still believe in a place called Hope.
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When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama Administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%. You hear that? More work. So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true.
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Today's possibilities are not tomorrows guarantees.
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I think you have you to give people the facts [about global warming], and then you have to tell them, this is not like drinking Castor Oil. There is a, an economically exciting way for us to create a whole new generation of American jobs without costing them an enormous amount of money or forcing them to change their lifestyle.
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It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.
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I believe we can do much more to adapt to the structural changes in the global economy, get high-end manufacturing back here, set up clusters of economic activity where you have, among other things, continuous retraining of people well into their middle years so they never become irrelevant to the current job market.
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We need to help younger people recognize their own capacity to do good, and help them discover the rewards of generosity.
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President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.
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Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.
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My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.
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