Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they came yesterday or walked this land a thousand years ago our great challenge for the 21st century is to find a way to be One America. We can meet all the other challenges if we can go forward as One America.

William J. Clinton

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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.

William J. Clinton

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

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Our immigration policy is focussed in four areas: First, strengthening border control; second, protecting American jobs by enforcing laws against illegal immigrants at the workplace; third, deporting criminal and deportable aliens; fourth, giving assistance to states who need it, and denying illegal aliens benefits for public services or welfare.

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Character is a journey, not a destination.

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Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow.

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Everybody counts, everybody deserves a chance, everybody has a responsible role to play and we all do better when we work together.

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The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.

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The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

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Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.

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We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

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I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

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Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

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

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Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.

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Sometimes there is a difference in what is legal and what ought to be done.

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I did not have sexual relations with that woman

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When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good. But what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.

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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.

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If you want to have a good life you have to have some constructive outlet for your feelings.

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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

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