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William Jefferson „Bill“ Clinton ist ein US-amerikanischer Politiker der Demokratischen Partei und war von 1993 bis 2001 der 42. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten. Von 1979 bis 1981 sowie nochmals von 1983 bis 1992 bekleidete er das Amt des Gouverneurs von Arkansas.

Clinton gehört dem Flügel der New Democrats an, die für einen Dritten Weg zwischen Politischer Mitte und Neoliberalismus stehen. Er war der Nachfolger von George Bush und Vorgänger von dessen Sohn George W. Bush. Seit dem Jahr 1975 ist er mit Hillary Clinton verheiratet, mit der er die gemeinsame Tochter Chelsea hat.

✵ 19. August 1946

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„Das kommt darauf an, was die Bedeutung des Wortes 'ist' ist.“

1998 auf die Frage, ob er über seine Affäre mit Monica Lewinsky gelogen habe, Spiegel Online http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,531380,00.html, 28. Januar 2008 <br class="br">"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the [...] 'is' means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement. [...] Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true." - President Clinton's Aug. 17 [1998] Grand Jury Testimony. Anlage zum Starr Report. www.washingtonpost.com http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/bctest092198_4.htm

„Amerika steht an Ihrer Seite, jetzt und für immer.“

Rede in Berlin am Brandenburger Tor, 12. Juli 1994, usa.usembassy.de http://usa.usembassy.de/etexts/ga6-940712.htm, spiegel.de http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,342313,00.html

„Wir machen Schluss mit der Sozialhilfe, wie wir sie kennen. […] Sozialhilfe dient als zweite Chance. Sie darf niemals zu einem Lebensstil werden.“

Rede vom 23.10.1991, zitiert nach Welt.de http://www.welt.de/welt_print/article892619/Nachwuchs_als_Einkommensquelle.html <br class="br">Original engl.: "Welfare should be a second chance, not a way of life. In my administration we're going to put an end to welfare as we have come to know it." - Remarks to Students at Georgetown University, October 23, 1991. clintonpresidentialcenter.org http://clintonpresidentialcenter.org/georgetown/speech_newcovenant1.php

Bill Clinton: Zitate auf Englisch

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

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Television interview (March 1992), quoted in the New York Times (31 March 1992) realone audio file http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/ididntinhale.rm <br class="br">1990s

“She never made fun of people with disabilities; she tried to empower them based on their abilities.”

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2010s, (July 26, 2016)

“I ran upstairs to see my wife, we literally just sat there and held each other for, like, 20 minutes.”

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In an interview aired 20 years after assassination of Yitzhak Rabin http://www.timesofisrael.com/clinton-i-really-loved-rabin-and-he-would-have-made-peace/ (27 October 2015). <br class="br">2010s

“Private citizens have more power to do public good and solve common problems than ever before in human history.”

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Made that statement during a conference in Ottawa, Canada, in March 2006. He concluded that a trend of international goodwill has been developing since the 2004 tsunami and said, with a hint of optimism, that the world is now at “a time of unprecedented interdependence.” <br class="br"> Source: JW.org http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2007361?q=clinton&p=par <br class="br">2000s

“There are clear, achievable, affordable responses to our challenges. But we won’t get to them if America makes the wrong choice in this election. That’s why you should elect her. And you should elect her because she’ll never quit when the going gets tough. She’ll never quit on you.”

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2010s, (July 26, 2016)

“Let me tell you what the facts are. Now, we had a hard time getting those facts into these debates, because they're so inconvenient for the other side. And I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. … They are not bothered at all by the facts. And you've got to kind of give it to them. … They know what they're for.”

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Remarks at a Reception for Representative Martin T. Meehan in Lowell, Massachusetts (20 October 2000) http://www.govrecords.org/pd30oc00-statement-on-congressional-action-on-the-foreign-3.html <br class="br">2000s

“You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That's a good-looking mummy.”

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Looking at "Juanita," a newly discovered Incan mummy on display at the National Geographic museum
2000s

“You know, we can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans to legitimately own handguns and rifles -- it's something I strongly support -- we can't be so fixated on that that we are unable to think about the reality of life that millions of Americans face on streets that are unsafe, under conditions that no other nation—no other nations—has permitted to exist. And at some point, I still hope that the leadership of the National Rifle Association will go back to doing what it did when I was a boy and which made me want to be a lifetime member because they put out valuable information about hunting and marksmanship and safe use of guns. But just to know of the conditions we face today in a lot of our cities and other places in this country and the enormous threat to public safety is amazing.”

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the Adult Learning Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=46264, March 1, 1993 <br class="br">1990s

“I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can't be judged only by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes only response to pain.”

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Bill Clinton My Life

My Life (2004), page 15
2000s

“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.”

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Statement http://www.ur.ku.edu/News/04N/MayNews/May28/transcript.html (May 21, 2004) <br class="br">2000s

“No one wants to get this matter behind us more than I do—except maybe all the rest of the American people.”

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Statement on the Monica Lewinsky affair, at Rose Garden press conference http://clinton3.nara.gov/WH/New/html/19980731-26849.html (July 31, 1998) <br class="br">1990s

“In the years ahead, I will never hold a position higher or a covenant more sacred than that of President of the United States. But there is no title I will wear more proudly than that of citizen.”

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2000s, Farewell address (18 January 2001)

“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.”

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2010s, (July 26, 2016)

“Someone should tell him that part of the art of politics is smiling when you feel like you’re swallowing a turd.”

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To Alastair Campbell on David Trimble according to Campbell's diaries, The Blair Years (2007) http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XAUVWij78oQC&pg=PA320&lpg=PA320&dq=%22Someone+should+tell+him+that+part+of+the+art+of+politics+is+smiling+when+you+feel+like+you%E2%80%99re+swallowing+a+turd%22&source=bl&ots=NeSrq9ZCGr&sig=hXsgQneQqkODxOnpvNE1yWfmPto&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DSWBUriUFI6jhgfd9YDYCQ&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Someone%20should%20tell%20him%20that%20part%20of%20the%20art%20of%20politics%20is%20smiling%20when%20you%20feel%20like%20you%E2%80%99re%20swallowing%20a%20turd%22&f=false <br class="br">Attributed

“History has shown us, that you can't allow the mass extermination of people, and just sit by and watch it happen.”

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On the Bosnian war Time Magazine http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981548-1,00.html <br class="br">2000s

“Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in '84 and '88. Jackson ran a good campaign. And Obama ran a good campaign here.”

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January 26, 2008 http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/01/bubba-obama-is.html <br class="br">2000s

“We want to live forever, and we're getting there.”

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Millennium evening http://www.rand.org/scitech/stpi/ourfuture/Rosetta/millennium.html at the White House (October 1999) <br class="br">1990s

“We need a steady stream of cash. The American people have been uncommonly generous.”

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While touring tsunami-devastated areas with his presidential predecessor, George H. W. Bush, February 20, 2005[citation needed]
2000s

“The last time I checked, the Constitution said, 'of the people, by the people and for the people.' That's what the Declaration of Independence says.”

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From a campaign speech given in California. Quoted in Investor's Business Daily October 25, 1996
1990s

“My grandfather just had a grade-school education. But in that country store he taught me more about equality in the eyes of the Lord than all my professors at Georgetown; more about the intrinsic worth of every individual than all the philosophers at Oxford; and he taught me more about the need for equal justice than all the jurists at Yale Law School.”

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"A Place Called Hope" (July 16, 1992)
1990s, A Place Called Hope (16 July 1992)

“Abigail, do you favor the United States Army abolishing the affirmative action program that produced Colin Powell? Yes or no? Yes or no?”

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In response to a statement by Abigail Thernstrom, Remarks in a Townhall Meeting on Race at the E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall at the University of Akron, Akron, Ohio (December 3, 1997). "http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=53654 Remarks in a Townhall Meeting on Race in Akron]," December 3, 1997.
1990s

“We are fortunate to be alive at this moment in history.”

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State of the Union address (January 27, 2000)
2000s

“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.”

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First inaugural address (January 20, 1993), Washington, D.C.
1990s

“If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people’s lives are better, you know it’s hard and some people think it’s boring. Speeches like this are fun. Actually doing the work is hard. So people say, well, we need to change. She’s been around a long time, she sure has, and she’s sure been worth every single year she’s put into making people’s lives better.”

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2010s, (July 26, 2016)

“You know, I have repeatedly defended President Bush against the left on Iraq, even though I think he should have waited until the U. N. inspections were over. I don't believe he went in there for oil. We didn't go in there for imperialist or financial reasons. We went in there because he bought the Wolfowitz-Cheney analysis that the Iraqis would be better off, we could shake up the authoritarian Arab regimes in the Middle East, and our leverage to make peace between the Palestinians and Israelis would be increased.”

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Interview with Time Magazine, June 2004
2000s

“I think it's very interesting that all the conservative Republicans who now say I didn't do enough claimed that I was too obsessed with Bin Laden. All of President Bush's neo-cons thought I was too obsessed with Bin Laden. They had no meetings on Bin Laden for nine months after I left office. All the right-wingers who now say I didn't do enough, said I did too much—same people.”

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Interview with Chris Wallace, FOX News Sunday, September 24, 2006. Transcript: William Jefferson Clinton on 'FOX News Sunday' http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,215397,00.html <br class="br">2000s

“Next, we must help parents protect their children from the gravest health threat that they face -- an epidemic of teen smoking, spread by multimillion dollar marketing campaigns. I challenge Congress -- let's pass bipartisan, comprehensive legislation that will improve public health, protect our tobacco farmers and change the way tobacco companies do business forever. Let's do what it takes to bring teen smoking down. Let's raise the price of cigarettes by up to $1.50 a pack over the next 10 years with penalties on the tobacco industry if it keeps marketing to our children.”

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1998 State of the Union Address (January 27, 1998)
1990s

“She loved her teaching and she got frustrated when one of her students said, well, what do you expect, I’m just from Arkansas. She said, don’t tell me that, you’re as smart as anybody, you’ve just got to believe in yourself and work hard and set high goals. She believed that anybody could make it.”

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2010s, (July 26, 2016)

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

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Remarks at the Dedication of the Thomas J. Dodd Archives and Research Center in Storrs, Connecticut http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=50654&st=tyranny&st1=destruction, October 15, 1995 <br class="br">1990s

“The loss of trust is paralyzing.”

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Presidential Leadership speech http://www.c-span.org/video/?326958-1/presidents-clinton-george-w-bush-leadership (9 July 2015). <br class="br">2010s

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