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

- William J. Clinton

Nothing, Memorial Day, Cured

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

- William J. Clinton

Envy, Own, Nothing, Renewal

When I was president, I worked hard to give you more peace and shared prosperity, to give you an America where nobody is invisible or counted out. But for this time, Hillary is uniquely qualified to seize the opportunities and reduce the risks we face. And she is still the best darn change-maker I have ever known.

- William J. Clinton

Seize, Invisible, Shared, Qualified

Hillary had never run for office before, but she decided to give it a try. She began her campaign the way she always does new things, by listening and and learning. And after a tough battle, New York elected her to the seat once held by another outsider, Robert Kennedy.

- William J. Clinton

New Things, Before, Held, Robert

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

Life, Adversity, Main Thing, Handle

When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.

- William J. Clinton

Away, I Think, Globally, Integrated

Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive.

- William J. Clinton

Still, Sept, Hussein, Bin

When I became president with a commitment to reform health care, Hillary was a natural to head the health care task force. You all know we failed because we couldn't break a Senate filibuster. Hillary immediately went to work on solving the problems the bill sought to address one by one.

- William J. Clinton

Solving, Became, Immediately, Filibuster

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

- William J. Clinton

Education, Scientific, Good Jobs

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.

- William J. Clinton

Independence, Living, Making, Vital

President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. Listen to me now. No president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years.

- William J. Clinton

Predecessors, Damage, Obama, Weaker

I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake.

- William J. Clinton

Poor Countries, South, Bush, Earthquake

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

- William J. Clinton

Food, Became, Eaten, McDonald

Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.

- William J. Clinton

Deep, Say, Innocents, Sharp

President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.

- William J. Clinton

Strength, Partnership, Over, National Security

When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama Administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%. You hear that? More work. So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true.

- William J. Clinton

Some, Administration, Employment

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.

- William J. Clinton

Politics, Frustrated, Works, Hurting

I married my best friend. I was still in awe after more than four years of being around her at how smart and strong and loving and caring she was. And I really hoped that her choosing me and rejecting my advice to pursue her own career was a decision she would never regret.

- William J. Clinton

Strong, Career, Rejecting, Never Regret

In 1979, just after I became governor, I asked Hillary to chair a rural health committee to help expand health care to isolated farm and mountain areas. They recommended to do that partly by deploying trained nurse practitioners in places with no doctors to provide primary care they were trained to provide.

- William J. Clinton

Rural, Became, Trained, Nurse

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

- William J. Clinton

Memoirs, Lot, Mine, Self-Serving

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.

- William J. Clinton

Hire, Necessary, Inability, Constraint

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.

- William J. Clinton

New, Tell, Evidence, Common Sense

When Chelsea was 9 months old, I was defeated for reelection in the Reagan landslide. And I became overnight, I think, the youngest former governor in the history of the country. We only had two-year terms back then.

- William J. Clinton

Country, Chelsea, Became, Two-Year

Where are the jobs going to come from? Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.

- William J. Clinton

Small, Small Business, Manufacturing

President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.

- William J. Clinton

Controls, Decade, Half, Proposed

In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.

- William J. Clinton

Average, Private, Knowledge-Based

Remember, Republican economic policies quadrupled the debt before I took office and doubled it after I left. We simply can't afford to double-down on trickle-down.

- William J. Clinton

Republican, Before, Took, Economic

In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.

- William J. Clinton

Chaos, Lives, Almost, Struggle

I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.

- William J. Clinton

New, Like, Clean Energy, Businesses

One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.

- William J. Clinton

Other, Bottom, Deny, Missiles

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