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We are moving people from welfare to work. On welfare, we launch a quiet revolution.

We are moving people from welfare to work. On welfare, we launch a quiet revolution.

William J. Clinton
Moving, People, Revolution

I want to build a bridge to the 21st century in which we create a strong and growing economy to preserve the legacy of opportunity for the next generation by balancing our budget in a way that protects our values and ensuring that every family will be able to own and protect the value of their most important asset, their home.

William J. Clinton
Strong, Home, Opportunity
Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1411, Best Books on

If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better, you know it's hard and some people think it's boring. Speeches like this are fun, actually doing the work is hard.

William J. Clinton
Fun, Believe, Thinking
Source: www.abc.net.au

We are on the right track to the 21st century. We are on the right track, but our work is not finished. What should we do? First, let us consider how to proceed. I say the question is no longer, "Who's to blame?" but "What to do?"

William J. Clinton
Track, Firsts, Blame
Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1410, Best Books on

You know what higher interest rates mean. To you it means a higher mortgage payment, a higher car payment, a higher credit card payment. To our economy, it means business people will not borrow as much money, invest as much money, create as many new jobs, create as much wealth, raise as many raises.

William J. Clinton
Jobs, Mean, Car
William J. Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention, articles.baltimoresun.com. August 30, 1996.

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.

William J. Clinton
Children, Cutting, Long

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.

William J. Clinton
School, Cities, People
Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1413, Best Books on

I want to talk about one barrier that has not been broken. I want you to support Hillary [Clinton] for me, too, because I want to break a ceiling. I am tired of the stranglehold that women have had on the job of presidential spouse.

William J. Clinton
Jobs, Tired, Broken
"CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. October 24, 2015.

My major political identity has been as her spouse for the last decade and I like it that way.

William J. Clinton
Political, Identity, Spouse
"Bill Clinton Takes A Quiz About My Little Ponies". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. July 7, 2012.

No we can't cast ourselves as liberals.

William J. Clinton
Casts
Source: www.politico.com

I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that ends the permanent underclass, that lifts up the poor and ends their isolation, their exile, and they are not forgotten anymore.

William J. Clinton
Bridges, Want, Isolation

I love and revere the rich and proud history of America. And I am determined to take our best traditions into the future. But with all respect, we do not need to build a bridge to the past. We need to build a bridge to the future.

William J. Clinton
Past, America, Bridges

When you're president, you have more power to help more people, but you also are the prisoner of circumstances as well, and countervailing political forces more.

William J. Clinton
People, Political, President
"Bill Clinton Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. June 24, 2011.

I tell you, my fellow Americans, that if we learned anything from the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the governments in Eastern Europe, even a totally controlled society cannot resist the winds of change that economics and technology and information flow have imposed in this world of ours. That is not an option. Our only realistic option is to embrace these changes and create the jobs of tomorrow.

William J. Clinton
Wall, Fall, Technology
Source: www.sfgate.com

In a fundamental sense, this debate about NAFTA is a debate about whether we will embrace these changes and create the jobs of tomorrow, or try to resist these changes, hoping we can preserve the economic structures of yesterday.

William J. Clinton
Trying, Tomorrow, Debate
Source: www.sfgate.com

The good news is you can get a lot of information off the Internet for free and in a hurry. But I think the breaking up of the media, which is otherwise kind of healthy, has contributed to less actual reporting and a louder, more contentious, more divisive public discourse, highlighting conflict, sometimes falsely.

William J. Clinton
Thinking, Media, Healthy
"Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.

William J. Clinton
Trying, Done, Conservative
"Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.

William J. Clinton
War, Greatness, Want

I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns. But then they really decided that they liked being in the majority for the first time in forty years, and they wanted to get some things done, and I agreed, to get things I wanted. It was all perfectly transparent. Everybody knew what they wanted and what I wanted.

William J. Clinton
Government, Years, Two
"Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P.Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

We've had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington's second term, when it was obvious that he would be the first and only consensus president.

William J. Clinton
America, President, Firsts
Source: www.foxnews.com

I think we need to push harder, we the Democrats, because it's an open door for the Republicans - prosperity centers.

William J. Clinton
Thinking, Doors, Needs
"Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

My view is there will be problems and bad people as long as the earth exists, and since we're moving into a completely interdependent global environment, we're better off building a world we'd like to live in when the United States are not the only military superpower. That is, we need to build a world of shared responsibility, shared benefits, and shared commitment to our common humanity.

William J. Clinton
Military, Moving, Commitment

The United States is too big and we are too involved with too many people for any president to be able to take actions that will be universally agreed to all day, every day and everywhere in the world.

William J. Clinton
People, President, United States
Source: www.nbcnews.com

If you wanna maintain 20 percent of the world's income with 4 percent of the world's people, you gotta first of all have more shared prosperity and shared growth.

William J. Clinton
People, Growth, Income
"Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.

William J. Clinton
Mistake, Self, Trying