Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clintonis an American politician who was the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Clinton was previously Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992, and the Arkansas Attorney General from 1977 to 1979. A member of the Democratic Party, ideologically Clinton was a New Democrat, and many of his policies reflected a centrist "Third Way" political philosophy...
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth19 August 1946
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I think he's trying to build goodwill, which is important. Maybe the last few years have bled enough poison out of the system where it will be possible.
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When you're a president, or prime minister of Canada.... your life is a constant battle between trying to pursue the agenda you (promised) to implement and trying to deal with all the incoming fire, the events of the day that you can't control,
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John had a dream of black people as successful and smart and beautiful and heroic, a vision of keeping hope alive by showing black people as faces of hope. He never gave up. He never gave in. He once said 'At the end of the day, we're all just trying to give people hope.' I liked John Johnson. I thought he was a strong and wise, straight forward and kind man.
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I think it's a mistake for them to try and blame us for it, though, because we actually have a clear and unbroken record of trying to clear up a lot of these corporate abuses. . . . There was corporate malfeasance both before he took office and after. The difference is I actually tried to do something about it, and their party stopped it.
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I think that the country needs a debate that's not a screaming match. . . . And I think too many times we have these arguments on these talk shows where they're trying to get ratings by generating heat, when we ought to be trying to generate more light.
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These people are fighting for their lives and they are fighting for the lives of their children and they are trying to get their act together, ... It would be unconscionable if we don't do something to help.
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We're doing 60 Minutes because we're too old for ""Survivor"" and ""Star Search.
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I've reached an age now where it doesn't matter whatever happens to me. I just don't want anyone to die before their time. I've asked you here because I think all of us have an unprecedented power to solve problems, save lives and help people see the future.
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These projects are going on very well, I think you just need to extend it, keep serving for more people,
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it would have been impossible for characters to go to parties and not meet Clinton.
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The world's poor cannot be led by people like Mr. bin Laden who think they can find their redemption in our destruction. But the world's rich cannot be led by people who play to our short-sided selfishness and pretend that we can forever claim for ourselves what we deny to others.
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The violence does not demonstrate that the quest for peace has gone too far -- but that it has not gone far enough. And it points not to the failure of negotiations -- but to the futility of violence and force.
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And though you have given too much, you still have so much to give.
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Each human life is unique, born of a miracle that reaches beyond laboratory science. Any discovery that touches upon human creation is not simply a matter of scientific inquiry. It is a matter of morality and spirituality as well.