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William J. Clinton has 480 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.
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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,…
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There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
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Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it…
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You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.
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I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.
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Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.
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Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.
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Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really…
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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…
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Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
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We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles…
— Walter Weyl
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You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of…
— Israel Zangwill
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I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who…
— Kerry Washington
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Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles,…
— William J. Clinton
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He looked like someone with a steerage ticket on the titanic. Somebody who'd be standing in line at Ellis Island. Undiluted and…
— Rainbow Rowell
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Beginning with a trip out to Ellis Island, I saw for myself where thousands of European immigrants took their first steps onto…
— Paul Merton
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El Paso in many ways is the Ellis Island for Mexico and much of Latin America.
— Beto O'Rourke
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My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side…
— James Gray
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Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The…
— Arthur Hertzberg
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No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.
— Mitch Kapor
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