Bill Clinton
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"William Jefferson" ""Bill"" "Clinton" is an Americans/American politician who served from 1993 to 2001 as the List of Presidents of the United States/42nd President of the United States. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the List of Presidents of the United States by age/third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president from the baby boomer generation. Clinton has been described as a New Democrats/New Democrat. Many of his policies have been attributed to a centrism/centrist Third Way philosophy of governance. Before becoming president, he was the Governor of Arkansas for five terms, serving from 1979 to 1981 and from 1983 to 1992. He was also the Arkansas Attorney General/state's Attorney General from 1977 to 1979.

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We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

The United States can't be so fixed on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...

The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.

No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again.

We have to ask the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share again. Their incomes went up in the 1980s and their taxes went down. We can't ask the middle class to pay more; their incomes went down and their taxes went up.

[George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.

I like that about the Republicans; the evidence does not faze them, they are not bothered at all by the facts.

Opportunity for all means making taxes fair. I'm not out to soak the rich. But I do believe the rich should pay their fair share. For twelve years, the Republicans have raised taxes on the middle class. It's time to give the middle class tax relief.

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.

Globalization is not something we can hold off or turn off . . . it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature -- like wind or water.

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two, I didn't like it, I didn't inhale it, and never tried it again.

Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.

Affirmative action is an effort to develop a systematic approach to open the doors of education, employment and business development opportunities to qualified individuals who happen to be members of groups that have experienced long-standing and per.

Ronald Reagan and George Bush pushed through programs that raised taxes on the middle class. I think it's time to cut them. And in my administration I'll offer a middle-income tax cut that will cut rates on the middle class.

Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.

You should have disagreements with your leaders and your colleagues, but if it becomes immediately a question of questioning people's motives, and if immediately you decide that somebody who sees a whole new situation differently than you must be a bad person and somehow twisted inside, we are not going to get very far in forming a more perfect union.

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

I'm not going to raise taxes on middle-class Americans to pay for the programs I've recommended.

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it.