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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

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.

William J. Clinton
Christian, Religious, Heart
Clinton, William J. (1996). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1082, Best Books on

Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Gore, we have a government for the Information Age, once again a government that is a progressive instrument of the common good, rooted in our oldest values of opportunity, responsibility and community, devoted to fiscal responsibility, determined to give our people the tools they need to make the most of their own lives in the 21st century, a 21st century government for 21st century America.

William J. Clinton
Responsibility, Opportunity, America
Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.62, Best Books on

We can't renew America unless more of us, I mean all of us, are willing to join churches.

William J. Clinton
Mean, America, Church
Source: chomsky.info

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.

William J. Clinton
Dream, Knowledge, College
Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.89, Best Books on

We are very frustrated because we have a Supreme Court that seems determined to say that the wealthier have more right to free speech than the rest of us. For example, they say you couldn't stop me from spending all the money I've saved over the last five years on Hillary's campaign if I wanted to, even though it would clearly violate the spirit of campaign finance reform.

William J. Clinton
Years, Frustrated, Example

Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.

William J. Clinton
Time, March, Missions

...More important than the deficit, more important then healthcare-more important than anything-we have got to do something about our energy strategy. Because if we permit the climate to continue to warm at an unsustainable rate, and if we keep on doing what we're doing until we're out of oil and we haven't made the transition, then it's inconceivable to me that our children and grandchildren will be able to maintain the American way of life and that the world won't be much fuller of resource-based wars of all kinds.

William J. Clinton
Children, War, Oil

More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.

William J. Clinton
Thinking, People, Leader

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.

William J. Clinton
Country, Responsibility, Opportunity

What really happened in Vietnam was- all these things are away games for the American military. We're not on our home turf, which means to succeed there has to be a partner. And the definition of partnership is someone willing to risk their lives in their home area to prevail because they think it's necessary to build a decent life and a better life for their people.

William J. Clinton
Military, Home, Mean
Source: www.nbcnews.com

With almost no time to decide, they [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the capitol from attack. They saved God knows how many lives. They saved the terrorists from claiming the symbolic victory of smashing the center of American government. And they did it as citizens. They allowed us to survive as a country that could fight terror and still maintain liberty and still welcome people from all over the world from every religion and race and culture as long as they shared our values, because ­ordinary people given no time at all to decide did the right thing.

William J. Clinton
Country, Powerful, Fighting
William J. "Bill" Clinton's Flight 93 memorial dedication speech, www.newsbusters.org. September 10, 2011.

We're [Clinton Foundation] trying to get rapid tests that give you results when you're right there on site at an affordable price. Ninety percent of the HIV-positive people in the world don't know they have the infection. An enormous amount of infections are being perpetrated by people who don't know they themselves are HIV positive.

William J. Clinton
People, Giving, Trying
Source: www.npr.org

Sometimes I feel like the fire hydrant looking at a pack of dogs.

William J. Clinton
Funny, Dog, Fire
"Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999".

I have never had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. I've never had an affair with her.

William J. Clinton
Stupid, Humorous, Dumb
"Clinton Deposition In Jones Case: 'I've Never Had An Affair With Her'". www.cnn.com.

On Earth Day I made a commitment to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by the year 2000. And I asked for a blueprint on how to achieve this goal. In concert with all other nations, we simply must halt global warming. It is a threat to our health, to our ecology, and to our economy. I know that the precise magnitude and patterns of climate change cannot be fully predicted. But global warming clearly is a growing, long-term threat with profound consequences. And make no mistake about it, it will take decades to reverse.

William J. Clinton
Mistake, Commitment, Years

I've gained first hand knowledge of the challenges faced by people with disabilities. It's made me understand that those of us who have full use of our physical faculties owe an enormous amount of respect and sensitivity to people who don't.

William J. Clinton
Hands, People, Challenges
Source: www.abilitymagazine.com

When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps

William J. Clinton
Moving, Weekend, Gun

My fellow Americans, all of us in this grand hall and everybody watching at home, when we vote in this election, we'll be deciding what kind of country we want to live in. If you want a winner-take-all, you're-on-your-own society, you should support the Republican ticket. But if you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibility, a we're-all-in-this-together society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

William J. Clinton
Country, Responsibility, Opportunity
William J. "Bill" Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

It might suprise you to know I think I raised them too much, too

William J. Clinton
Stupid, Humorous, Thinking

Music, to me, was - is - representative of everything I like most in life. It's beautiful and fun, but very rigorous. If you wanted to be good you had to work like crazy. It was a real relationship between effort and reward. My musical life experiences were just as important to me, in terms of forming my development, as my political experiences or my academic life.

William J. Clinton
Beautiful, Fun, Crazy

We should make it a crime even to attempt to pollute. Our children should grow up next to parks, not poison.

William J. Clinton
Children, Growing Up, Poison
Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1415, Best Books on

It is a commonplace of American life that immigrants have made our country great and continue to make a very important contribution to the fabric of American life. But...under the pressures we face today, we can't afford to lose control of our borders, or to take on new financial burdens, at a time when we are not adequately providing for the jobs, the health care, and the education of our own people. Therefore, immigration must be a priority for this administration.

William J. Clinton
Country, Jobs, People

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility.

William J. Clinton
Responsibility, Luxury, Literacy
Clinton, William J. (1995). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1994”, p.1503, Best Books on

Our Nation owes a lasting debt of gratitude to all those selfless members of our Armed Forces who have risked their own freedom and safety to defend the the lives and liberty of others.

William J. Clinton
Gratitude, Safety, Liberty

Taxing less and spending more.. it's fun in the short run, but it's a recipe for disaster.

William J. Clinton
Running, Fun, Recipes