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William Jefferson Clinton, nato con il nome di William Jefferson Blythe III, detto Bill , è un politico statunitense, 42º presidente degli Stati Uniti d'America dal 1993 al 2001.

Con i suoi 46 anni al momento dell'elezione, è stato il terzo presidente più giovane di sempre. Il suo mandato è iniziato alla fine della Guerra fredda, ed è stato il primo presidente della generazione dei baby boomer. Clinton è stato descritto come un "New Democrat" e le sue scelte politiche hanno seguito la cosiddetta "Third Way" di centro, che concilia le tradizionali posizioni di destra sull'economia con una politica sociale progressista.

Nato e cresciuto in Arkansas, ha frequentato la Georgetown University, dove ottenne una borsa di studio tramite la quale frequentò l'Università di Oxford. Durante il periodo universitario divenne leader studentesco e coltivò la sua passione per la musica. Sposato con Hillary D. Rodham, entrambi i Clinton hanno ottenuto la laurea in legge dall'Università di Yale, dove si sono conosciuti e hanno iniziato a frequentarsi. Quando era governatore dell'Arkansas, ha revisionato il sistema scolastico statale ed è stato Presidente della National Governors Association .

Eletto Presidente nelle presidenziali del 1992, durante il suo mandato gli Stati Uniti hanno vissuto uno dei più lunghi periodi di pace e prosperità economica di sempre. Tra i suoi provvedimenti più importanti bisogna ricordare il North American Free Trade Agreement e la controversa politica Don't ask, don't tell che doveva rappresentare un passo intermedio verso la piena integrazione dei militari omosessuali.

Dopo un vano tentativo di riforma del sistema sanitario nel 1994 il Partito Repubblicano ottenne il controllo del Congresso per la prima volta dopo 40 anni. Due anni dopo, Clinton venne eletto per un secondo mandato, durante il quale riuscì a far passare una riforma del welfare e lo State Children's Health Insurance Program, che ha fornito assistenza sanitaria a milioni di bambini. Nel 1998 venne sottoposto ad impeachment per falsa testimonianza e ostruzione della giustizia dopo lo Scandalo Lewinsky, ma venne assolto dal Senato. Negli ultimi tre anni del suo mandato, il bilancio federale ha avuto un avanzo primario positivo.

Clinton ha lasciato la carica con il più alto indice di gradimento mai ottenuto da un presidente dopo la seconda guerra mondiale. Da quel momento, è stato impegnato in discorsi pubblici e programmi umanitari. In accordo con la sua vocazione filantropica, Clinton ha creato la William J. Clinton Foundation con lo scopo di sensibilizzare la popolazione su questioni d'interesse mondiale come la prevenzione dell'AIDS e il riscaldamento globale. Nel 2004 ha pubblicato la sua autobiografia My Life .

È rimasto attivo in politica facendo campagna elettorale per i candidati democratici, in particolare per la moglie nel 2008 e poi per Barack Obama nel 2008 e nel 2012. Nel 2009 è stato nominato Inviato speciale delle Nazioni Unite per Haiti, e dopo il terremoto del 2010 ha formato, insieme al suo successore George W. Bush il Clinton Bush Haiti Fund . Anche dopo aver lasciato la carica continua a godere di un elevato consenso. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. Agosto 1946
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“Io non ho fatto sesso con quella donna, Miss Lewinski.”

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“[Discorso alla Convention democratica del 2008] Il mondo è sempre rimasto impressionato dalla forza del nostro esempio, non dall'esempio della nostra forza.”

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“L'Iraq è uno Stato canaglia con armi di distruzione di massa, pronte a essere usate o essere fornite ai terroristi. Se non rispondiamo oggi, Saddam e tutti quelli che lo seguiranno acquisiranno fiducia domani.”

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17 febbraio 1998

“[Il 16 dicembre 1998, parlando alla nazione] Oggi ho ordinato alle forze armate americane di colpire obiettivi militari e di sicurezza in Iraq. Agli americani si sono aggiunte le forze britanniche. La missione è quella di attaccare i programmi nucleari, chimici e biologici dell'Iraq, la sua capacità militare di minacciare i vicini… A Saddam Hussein non deve essere consentito di minacciare i suoi vicini o il mondo con le armi nucleari, con i gas venefici o con le armi biologiche. Anche altri paesi possiedono armi di distruzione di massa e missili balistici, ma con Saddam c'è una grande differenza: lui le ha già usate. Non una volta, ma ripetutamente. Sganciando armi chimiche contro le truppe iraniane nel corso di una guerra lunga dieci anni. Non solo contro i soldati ma contro i civili, lanciando missili Scud contro i cittadini di Israele, dell'Arabia Saudita, del Bahrain e dell'Iran. E non solo contro nemici stranieri, ma anche contro la sua stessa gente, gasando i civili curdi nell'Iraq del nord.”

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“Se pensi che dagli anni sessanta sia nato qualcosa di buono, probabilmente sei un democratico; se pensi che dagli anni sessanta è nato qualcosa di dannoso, probabilmente sei un repubblicano.”

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Bill Clinton: Frasi in inglese

“I know most of the young Democrats our age who want to go into politics, they mean well and they speak well, but none of them is as good as you are at actually doing things to make positive changes in people’s lives.”

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2010s, (July 26, 2016)

“And I think America, if we're ever going to truly defeat terror without changing the character of our own country or compromising the future of our children, has got to not only say, "Okay, I want to shoulder my responsibilities, I want to create my share of opportunities" but we have to find a way to define the future in terms of a humanity that goes beyond our country, that goes beyond any particular race, that goes beyond any particular religion.”

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Statement (May 21, 2004)
2000s

“[Plant-based diet] changed my whole metabolism, and I lost 24 pounds, and I got back basically what I weighed in high school. But I did it for a different reason. I mean, I wanted to lose a little weight. But I never dreamed this would happen. I did it because, after I had this stent put in, I realized that, even though it happens quite often after you have bypass, you lose the veins, because they're thinner and weaker than arteries. The truth is that it clogged up, which means that the cholesterol was still causing buildup in my vein that was part of my bypass. And thank God I can take the stents. I don't want it to happen again. So I did all this research. And I saw that 82 percent of the people since 1986 who have gone on a plant-based, no dairy, no meat … 82 percent of the people who have done that have begun to heal themselves. Their arterial blockage cleans up. The calcium deposit in their heart breaks up.”

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Interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1009/21/sitroom.02.html , September 21, 2010.
2010s

“Mr. President, you are not leading this Nation—you're just managing the Government. You don't see the people enough any more. Some of your Cabinet members don't seem loyal. There is not enough discipline among your disciples. Don't talk to us about politics or the mechanics of government, but about an understanding of our common good. Mr. President, we're in trouble. Talk to us about blood and sweat and tears. If you lead, Mr. President, we will follow.”

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As quoted by President Jimmy Carter during his Malaise Speech, delivered on 15 July 1979 http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/whistlestop/2015/07/when_ted_kennedy_challenged_incumbent_president_jimmy_carter_for_the_democratic.html.
1970s

“Hillary will make us stronger together. You know it because she’s spent a lifetime doing it.”

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2010s, (July 26, 2016)

“Hebrew שלום, חבר ("Goodbye, friend"). Eulogy at the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin, Jerusalem (February 16, 1996)”

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1990s

“Secretary-General Annan spoke for all of us … when he said that ethnic cleansers and mass murderers can find no refuge in the United Nations, no source of comfort or justification in its charter. We must do more to make these words real. Of course, we must approach this challenge with some considerable degree of humility. It is easy to say, "Never again," but much harder to make it so. Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little. But difficulties, dangers, and costs are not an argument for doing nothing. When we are faced with deliberate, organized campaigns to murder whole peoples or expel them from their land, the care of victims is important but not enough. We should work to end the violence.”

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Remarks to the 54th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (September 21, 1999)
1990s

“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. You could drop her into any trouble spot, pick one, come back in a month and somehow, some way she will have made it better. That is just who she is.”

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2010s, (July 26, 2016)

“If you were sitting where I’m sitting and you heard what I have heard at every dinner conversation, every lunch conversation, on every lone walk, you would say this woman has never been satisfied with the status quo in anything. She always wants to move the ball forward. That is just who she is.”

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2010s, (July 26, 2016)

“(George H. W. Bush) won't take the lead in protecting the environment and creating new jobs in environmental technologies for the 21st century, but I will. And you know what else? He doesn't have Al Gore, and I do.”

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"A Place Called Hope," speech to the 1992 Democratic National Convention accepting the Democratic nomination for President (July 16, 1992)
1990s, A Place Called Hope (16 July 1992)

“Now, I have to go back to work on my State of the Union speech. And I worked on it until pretty late last night. I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time, never. These allegations are false, and I need to go back to work for the American people.”

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Clinton denying that he had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSDAXGXGiEw.
Remarks on the After-School Child Care Initiative, Roosevelt Room, White House Remarks on the After-School Child Care Initiative http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=56257 (January 26, 1998)
1990s

“People like you always help the far-right, because you like to hurt people, and you like to talk about how bad people are and all their personal failings.”

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On the emphasis in the news media on the Starr investigation and the Lewinsky affair (June 22, 2004) Panorama interview http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3829799.stm
2000s

“Let me tell you something -- wait a minute. You know one things that's wrong with this country? Everybody gets a chance to have their fair say. My budget did more to fight AIDS than any in history, and we're having to put up with this. (Applause.) Tell them to let me talk. (Applause.) If you want to give a speech -- go out there and raise your own crowd. We'll be glad to listen to you. (Applause.) So there were those -- (interruption) -- I'll make you a deal. I'll ignore them if you will.”

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Response to hecklers, courtyard of Philadelphia City Hall (May 28, 1993). Remarks at City Hall in Philadelphia http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=46631, May 28, 1993.
1990s

“If a politician doesn't wanna get beat up, he shouldn't run for office. If a football player doesn't want to get tackled or want the risk of an a occasional clip he shouldn't put the pads on.”

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March 26, 2008 http://web.archive.org/web/20090224042117/http://www.salon.com/5things/2008/03/26/bill_clinton_saddle_
2000s

“What are the needs of the world? What can I do that won't be done if I don't do it?”

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ABC Primetime Live interview during opening of his presidential library in Little Rock, Ark., November 2004
2000s

“All of you know I'm having to become quite an expert in this business of asking for forgiveness. And I ----. It gets a little easier the more you do it. And if you have a family, an Administration, a Congress and a whole country to ask, you're going to get a lot of practice. But I have to tell that in these last days it has come home to me again, something I first learned as President, but it wasn't burned in my bones -- and that is that in order to get it, you have to be willing to give it. And all of us -- the anger, the resentment, the bitterness, the desire for recrimination against people you believe have wronged you -- they harden the heart and deaden the spirit and lead to self-inflicted wounds. And so it is important that we are able to forgive those we believe have wronged us, even as we ask for forgiveness from people we have wronged. And I heard that first -- first -- in the Civil Rights Movement. Love thy neighbor as thyself.”

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On August 28, 1998 at Union Chapel in Oak Bluff, Massachusetts, speaking on the 35th anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Published in the August 29, 1998 edition of <i>The New York Times</i>. http://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/29/us/in-clinton-s-remarks-a-focus-on-interdependence-and-forgiveness.html?pagewanted=5
1990s

“An increasing number of the young people in the IDF are the children of Russians and settlers, the hardest-core people against a division of the land. This presents a staggering problem. It's a different Israel. 16 percent of Israelis speak Russian. They've just got there, it's their country, they've made a commitment to the future there," Clinton said. "They can't imagine any historical or other claims that would justify dividing it.”

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Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York, September 21, 2010. http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/09/21/bill_clinton_russian_immigrants_and_settlers_obstacles_to_mideast_peace
2010s

“Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.”

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In support of John Kerry at the Democratic National Convention, Boston, MA, July 26, 2004
2000s

“If ever there comes a time when everyone you vote for wins and they do everything you think they should do, there will still be a gap between what is and what ought to be.”

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Interview with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show
2000s

“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.”

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State of the Union Address http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/New/html/19990119-2656.html (January 19, 1999)
1990s

“[After struggle with heart disease] I've stopped eating meat, cheese, milk, even fish. No dairy at all. I've lost more than 20 pounds so far, aiming for about 30 before Chelsea's wedding. And I have so much more energy now! I feel great. … I just decided that I was the high-risk person, and I didn't want to fool with this anymore. And I wanted to live to be a grandfather. So I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival. … The main thing that was hard for me actually … was giving up yogurt and hard cheese. I love that stuff, but it really made a big difference when I did it. … [To truly change the conditions that lead to bad habits and poor health] we have to demand it by changing the way we live. You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.”

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" Bill Clinton Explains Why He Became a Vegan http://www.aarp.org/health/healthy-living/info-08-2013/bill-clinton-vegan.html" by Joe Conason, AARP The Magazine, August/September 2013.
2010s

“Now, I don't have all the answers, but I do know the old ways don't work. Trickledown economics has sure failed. And big bureaucracies, both private and public, they've failed too. That's why we need a new approach to government, a government that offers more empowerment and less entitlement. More choices for young people in the schools they attend- in the public schools they attend. And more choices for the elderly and for people with disabilities and the long-term care they receive. A government that is leaner, not meaner; a government that expands opportunity, not bureaucracy; a government that understands that jobs must come from growth in a vibrant and vital system of free enterprise.”

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William J. Clinton: "Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Democratic National Convention in New York," July 16, 1992. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25958
1990s

“Webb, if I put you over at Justice I want you to find the answers to two questions for me. One, who killed JFK? And two, are there UFOs?”

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To Webster Hubbell during his interview for Attorney General, 1992, according to Hubbell's book Friends in High Places (1997) http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2843/is_n2_v22/ai_20562397/
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“A hundred years from tonight, another American president will stand in this place and report on the State of the Union. He—or she—(applause)—he or she will look back on a 21st century shaped in so many ways by the decisions we make here and now. So let it be said of us then that we were thinking not only of our time, but of their time; that we reached as high as our ideals; that we put aside our divisions and found a new hour of healing and hopefulness; that we joined together to serve and strengthen the land we love.”

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State of the Union Address (January 19, 1999)
1990s

“Hillary opened my eyes to a whole new world of public service by private citizens.”

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2010s, (July 26, 2016)

“I felt like a pickle stepping into history.”

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During the unveiling of his official portrait in the East Room of the White House http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1464584/Bill-Clinton-back-in-big-picture-for-unveiling-of-his-portrait.html (June 14, 2004)
2000s

“There's never a perfect bipartisan bill in the eyes of a partisan.”

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The Economist, December 18, 2010, p. 74
2010s

“End welfare as we know it.”

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Statement during 1992 US presidential campaign http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/Welfare/Accomp.html http://www.cnn.com/US/9608/22/welfare/ http://clinton1.nara.gov/White_House/Publications/html/briefs/iii-8.html http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/New/html/19990803.html
1990s

“A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.”

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Remarks allegedly made about Barack Obama to Ted Kennedy in 2008, as quoted in Game Change : Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime (2010) in John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
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