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"Yes, the president should resign. He has lied to the American people,
time and time again, and betrayed their trust. Since he
has admitted guilt, there is no reason to put the American people through
an impeachment. He will serve absolutely no purpose
in finishing out his term, the only possible solution is for the president
to save some dignity is to resign."
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Bill Clinton's comments regarding Nixon just after the Watergate scandal broke out.
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"I've said I've never broken the drug laws of my country, and that is
the absolute truth."
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Bill Clinton, New Orleans Times Picayune, 4/24/92
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"I'll FIRE ANYONE who has LIED to the American people or the United States Congress."
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VP Al Gore during presidential debate, 1988
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Q: "If you had it to do over again, would you inhale?"
A: [Bill Clinton:] "Sure, if I could. I tried before."
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Bill Clinton, MTV "Choose or Lose Special," 6/16/92
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"I intend to have a legislative program ready on the desks of Congress
on the day after I'm inaugurated. I intend to have an explosive 100 day action period. Why
do I think it will pass? Well, first of all, I'm running on it."
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Question from member of press: "We were originally led to believe you would have an outline for
congress even before the inauguration and presented on day one or shortly thereafter - and now
we're told it may be a couple weeks down the road with a full plan ready in March. When will it be
ready?"
Reply by Bill Clinton:
"Well, I don't know who led you to believe that, but I'm the Only one
who's authorized to talk about
that ---"
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"Since I was a little boy, I've heard about the Iowa caucuses. That's
why I would really like to do well in them."
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President Clinton - quoted in USA Today Feb 12, 1996
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"Iowa caucuses began in 1972 - Clinton was hardly a little boy - he was
at Oxford protesting!"
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U.S. History class at almost any government school.
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"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary
Americans ..."
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President Clinton (USA TODAY, 11 March 1993, page 2A)
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"The first lady will not invoke executive privilege."
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"Where's the (blank) flag? I want the (blank) flag up every (blank)
morning at (blank) sunrise."
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Hillary Rodham Clinton,
quoted in Partners in Power by R. Morris (p. 461)
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"If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the
government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit
those guarantees."
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President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993
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"And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When
personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's
what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public
housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps and
more things like that to try to make people safer in their
communities."
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President Bill Clinton on MTV's ``Enough is Enough", 3-22-94
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"I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I had changed
government policy solely because of a contribution."
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"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep."
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George Stephanopolous on "Larry King Live"
- 2/16/96
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"It is wrong to raise money on the promise of guaranteeing
specific kinds of access. That is wrong and we have stopped that."
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President Bill Clinton, August 4, 1995
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"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our
papers. We are the president."
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Hillary commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents
James B. Stewart - Blood Sport:
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"First of all, I didn't know about it. To the best of my recollection I
didn't know anything about his having that job until I read about it in the
press. And I can't imagine who could have ever arranged to do something
improper like that and no one around here know about it. It was just not--we
did not know
anything about it, and I can tell you categorically that that did not
happen. I knew nothing about it, none of us did before it happened.
And I personally didn't know anything about it, 'til I read about it in the
press."
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President Clinton News Conference 01/29/97
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