There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government. William J. Clinton More Quotes by William J. Clinton More Quotes From William J. Clinton If you wanna maintain 20 percent of the world's income with 4 percent of the world's people, you gotta first of all have more shared prosperity and shared growth. William J. Clinton income growth people We're going to build the bridge to the 21st century, we have to make our children free - free of the vise grip of guns and gangs and drugs; free to build lives of hope. William J. Clinton gun bridges children I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that ends the permanent underclass, that lifts up the poor and ends their isolation, their exile, and they are not forgotten anymore. William J. 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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 hero dream country I don't mind the debates, they're good for America, but we shouldn't be out there attacking each other all the time. William J. Clinton debate mind america Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms. William J. Clinton greatness want war The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done. William J. Clinton conservative done trying I do think that the role of the Internet, and the way it's bringing everything into the home, has made a parent's job much more difficult. And it's harder to know what to do and how to do it. 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