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If you take advantage of the fact that technology abolishes distance, then you won't need to go to India. Just go to Indiana.

If you take advantage of the fact that technology abolishes distance, then you won't need to go to India. Just go to Indiana.

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

I think actually that the speech work I do is fine. It's important, because I try to help people think about what's going on and organize their lives accordingly.

William J. Clinton
Thinking, People, Important
"Q&A: How Bill Clinton is Changing the World". Interview with Patricia Storace, www.cntraveler.com. August 15, 2007.

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.

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

The worst thing about not being president anymore is I was disoriented for three weeks because nobody every played a song when I walked in.

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

President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself.

William J. Clinton
Running, Tough Times, President
Source: www.pbs.org

When I was president, I knew exactly what I wanted to do every day to bring America together and create a greater sense of opportunity and a larger sense of responsibility and a stronger sense of community.

William J. Clinton
Responsibility, Opportunity, America
Source: www.esquire.com

There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government.

William J. Clinton
Successful, Government, Shrinking
Source: www.pbs.org

You don't have to be an elected official to be a public servant.

William J. Clinton
Servant, Elected Officials, Public Servants

The Kyoto Treaty wasn't perfect, but we signed it, in fact, helped to draft it. And I'm very proud of it, it was the world's first commitment to doing something comprehensive on greenhouse gases and trying to reduce global warming before we do irreversible damage to many civilizations around the world.

William J. Clinton
Commitment, Civilization, Kyoto
Source: www.foxnews.com

[Alternative energy] will make us less dependent on foreign oil. It would make us more secure in our future. It would mean that our foreign policy could be a reflection of our values and our other interests, and not just that.

William J. Clinton
Mean, Reflection, Oil
Source: www.foxnews.com

I think the idea of moving to a cleaner energy future and doing more energy efficiency makes smart sense.

William J. Clinton
Smart, Moving, Thinking
Source: www.foxnews.com

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
Mean, Impact, Government

If we have the right preventive and primary care, if we start charging for comprehensive care in the chronic cases, 10 percent of the cases take up two-thirds of the medical expenses, and if we do more on problems like childhood obesity, that we can, to use the parlance that's popular in Washington, bend the cost curve and eventually reconcile this so our costs will be closer to our competitors and so we can cover everybody.

William J. Clinton
Curves, Two, Childhood
Source: www.nbcnews.com

Nothing in our lifetimes has been more heartening than when people of the former Soviet Union and Central Europe broke the grip of communism. We have aided their progress and I am proud of it.

William J. Clinton
Europe, People, Progress
Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1415, Best Books on

If you look at what's happened to the stock market, if you look at what's happened to housing values, if you look at what's happened to bank loan portfolios because the value of their other assets that they've already issued loans against were going down, there was a pretty good argument for trying to pass something at about this level of investment with the divisions as they were - unemployment, food stamps, and tax cuts, aid to education and healthcare, and job creation.

William J. Clinton
Jobs, Cutting, Trying
Source: www.foxnews.com

A parent may be without a job, but no child should be without a doctor.

William J. Clinton
Jobs, Children, Doctors

All of us in our administration worked hard to support families in raising their children and succeeding at work.

William J. Clinton
Children, Support, Administration

Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the rural areas.

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

In general I saw my job as the first president whose full term would be served after the Cold War in a global information society where we were interdependent but not integrated. And therefore, we were vulnerable to the worst, and able to seize the best, of what's going on in the world.

William J. Clinton
Jobs, War, President
"A Conversation with Former President Bill Clinton". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. July 7, 2004.

There's this whole problem of trafficking, which has gotten worse in the economic downturn, which disproportionately affects young women, but also affects some young men who are sold into bondage, into basically servitude for indebted work that they can often never escape from.

William J. Clinton
Men, Problem, Economic
Source: www.nbcnews.com

When you're president, the Democrats got to feel good when they walk in the door if you're a Republican; if you're a Democrat, the Republican has to feel like you're listening. And you should be listening.

William J. Clinton
Doors, Feel Good, Listening
Source: www.pbs.org

Health care's complicated, can be misrepresented, it's personal, it can spark fear, it's expensive, and the people who have got the money want to keep it.

William J. Clinton
People, Care, Want
Source: www.nbcnews.com

That's what she [Hillary Clinton] is done with everything all her life. She just makes something good happen, and that's what you need.

William J. Clinton
Needs, Done, Clinton
Source: www.npr.org

I wanted to continue to be active on those things that I cared about when I was president where I could still have an impact.

William J. Clinton
Impact, President, Wanted
"Q&A: How Bill Clinton is Changing the World". Interview with Patricia Storace, www.cntraveler.com. August 15, 2007.