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What we need to do is to have a sensible approach to immigration. It needs to be open. It needs to be non-dogmatic and non-bigoted. We need to be firm but reasonable in the way we deal with the problem of illegal

What we need to do is to have a sensible approach to immigration. It needs to be open. It needs to be non-dogmatic and non-bigoted. We need to be firm but reasonable in the way we deal with the problem of illegal immigration. And we need to try to get as many of our immigrants who want to do so to become citizens as quickly as possible so that the American people will all see that this is a part of the process of American history, which is a good one for our country.

William J. Clinton
Country, People, Trying

Let us all take more responsibility not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

William J. Clinton
Success, Country, Encouragement
Bill Clinton's first inauguration speech, www.aol.com. January 20, 1993.

This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank, be a good investment for them, for their children, for their grandchildren, and they would directly contribute to revitalizing a big sector of middle-class wages in America and making our country more productive, so that we could create more opportunity. But I think that we could get a lot of grassroots support from, like, local chambers of commerce and other things if they understood exactly how this infrastructure bank would work.

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

When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.

William J. Clinton
Country, Moving, Weekend
"Interview on MTV's "Enough is Enough" Forum". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. April 19, 1994.

You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. ... You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything.

William J. Clinton
Country, Decision, Leader
Clinton, William J. (1999). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998”, p.1533, Best Books on

I believe that this country's policies should be heavily biased in favor of nondiscrimination.

William J. Clinton
Country, Believe, Stupidity
Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.487, Best Books on

One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization and conflict. That is, drawing the sharp distinctions. But in real life, what works is networks and cooperation. And we need victories in real life, so we've got to get back to networks and cooperation, not just conflict. But politics has always been about conflict, and in the coverage of politics, information dissemination tends to be organized around conflict as well.

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

You can't say you love your country and hate your government.

William J. Clinton
Country, Hate, Love You
"The Clinton presidency - in quotes". news.bbc.co.uk. January 15, 2001.

You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.

William J. Clinton
Country, Decision, Conscious
"Bill Clinton Explains Why He Became a Vegan". Interview with Joe Conason, www.aarp.org. September 2013.

[Illegal immigration] costs the taxpayers of the United States a lot of money. And it's unfair to Americans who are working every day to pay their own bills. It's also unfair to a lot of people who have waited in line for years and years in other countries to be legal immigrants.

William J. Clinton
Country, Years, People
William J. Clinton “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1995, Bk. 1, January 1 to June 30, 1995”, Government Printing Office

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

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.

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 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

When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.

William J. Clinton
Sports, Country, Team
Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2890, Best Books on

By the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions.

William J. Clinton
Country, Decision, Leader
Clinton, William J. (1999). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998”, p.1533, Best Books on

When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to Americans, it was assumed that Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly...When personal freedom is being abused, you have to move to limit it.

William J. Clinton
Country, Moving, Gun

In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.

William J. Clinton
Country, Military, Example

The country is groaning and moaning and screaming for change.

William J. Clinton
Country, Groaning, Moaning
"2008’s Most Laughable Political Antics" by Daniel Kurtzman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 27, 2009.

If you come from a wealthy country with open borders, unless you seriously believe you can kill, imprison or occupy all your enemies, you have to make a world with more friends and fewer enemies - with more partners and fewer terrorists.

William J. Clinton
Country, Believe, Enemy

This is a huge problem. If we don't deal with this within just a few years, you will have island nations flooded; you will have the agricultural balance of most countries completely changed; you will have a dramatic increase in the number of severe, unmanageable weather events... And the good news is that we can now deal with this problem - and strengthen our economic growth, not weaken it.

William J. Clinton
Country, Islands, Years

But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.

William J. Clinton
Country, Truth Is, Interest
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In our own country, we have seen America pay a terrible price for any form of discrimination, and we have seen us grow stronger as we have steadily let more and more of our hatreds and our fears go. As we have given more and more of our people the chance to live their dreams. That is why the flame of our Statue of Liberty, like the Olympic flame carried all across America by thousands of citizen heroes will always burn brighter than the flames that burn our churches, our synagogues, our mosques.

William J. Clinton
Dream, Country, Hero
William J. Clinton's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, articles.baltimoresun.com. August 30, 1996.

Our country [America] is still the strongest force for peace and freedom on earth.

William J. Clinton
Country, America, Earth

I think if the White House or the President want to say anything about our conversations or anything I tried to do to help our country with their support or at their request, then I think they should be the ones to do that. But I think that former presidents should do that.

William J. Clinton
Country, Thinking, White
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