William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton é um político dos Estados Unidos que serviu como o 42º presidente do país por dois mandatos, entre 1993 e 2001. Antes de servir como presidente, Clinton foi governador do estado do Arkansas por dois mandatos. Tomou posse aos 46 anos, sendo o terceiro presidente mais jovem na data em que tomou posse. Ele tomou posse no final da Guerra Fria e foi o primeiro presidente da geração baby boomer.Ele é um ex-aluno da Universidade de Georgetown, onde foi membro das sociedades Kappa Kappa Psi e Phi Beta Kappa e ganhou uma bolsa de estudos Rhodes para estudar na Universidade de Oxford. Ele é casado com Hillary Rodham Clinton, que foi secretária de Estado entre de 2009 a 2013 e foi senadora por Nova Iorque de 2001 a 2009. Ambos os Clintons receberam diplomas de direito da Universidade Yale, onde se conheceram.
Clinton tem sido descrito como um novo democrata. Algumas das suas políticas, como o Acordo de Livre Comércio Norte Americano e a reforma do bem-estar, têm sido atribuídas a uma terceira via centrista de filosofia de governação, enquanto em outras questões a sua posição foi de centro-esquerda. Clinton presidiu o período mais longo de expansão econômica em tempos de paz da história americana. O Escritório de Orçamento do Congresso informou um superávit orçamentário entre os anos de 1998 e 2000, durante os últimos três anos da presidência de Clinton. Após uma tentativa fracassada de reforma dos cuidados de saúde, os republicanos ganharam o controle da Câmara dos Representantes em 1994, pela primeira vez em 40 anos. Dois anos depois, em 1996, Clinton foi reeleito e se tornou o primeiro membro do Partido Democrata desde Franklin D. Roosevelt a ganhar um segundo mandato como presidente. Mais tarde ele foi acusado de perjúrio e obstrução da justiça em um escândalo envolvendo uma estagiária da Casa Branca, mas foi absolvido pelo Senado dos Estados Unidos e serviu o seu mandato completo.Deixou o cargo com o melhor índice de aprovação de qualquer presidente dos EUA desde a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Desde então, ele esteve envolvido em palestras e trabalhos humanitários. Baseado em sua visão de mundo, Clinton criou o William J. Clinton Foundation para promover e tratar as causas internacionais, tais como tratamento e prevenção de HIV/AIDS e do aquecimento global. Em 2004, lançou sua autobiografia Minha Vida, e esteve envolvido na campanha presidencial de 2008 de sua esposa Hillary e, posteriormente, na do presidente Barack Obama. Em 2009, foi nomeado pelas Nações Unidas enviado especial para Haiti. No rescaldo do terramoto do Haiti em 2010, Clinton se uniu com George W. Bush para formar o Fundo Clinton-Bush.
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“Querida, você não vai acreditar no que os jornais estão dizendo.”
Bill Clinton, segundo Hillary Clinton, que diz só ter sabido do caso com Monica Lewinsky quando o presidente a acordou com um jornal debaixo do braço
Fonte: Revista Veja http://veja.abril.com.br/231298/p_012.html (23/12/98)
“Este é um trabalho asqueroso, que alguém tem de fazer.”
Henry Hyde, presidente da Comissão de Justiça da Câmara dos Estados Unidos, sobre o processo de impeachment
Fonte: Revista Veja http://veja.abril.com.br/231298/p_012.html (23/12/98)
“Por que eles têm de tirar você de mim?”
Clinton, ao saber que a estagiária seria transferida da Casa Branca para o Pentágono
Fonte: Revista Veja http://veja.abril.com.br/231298/p_012.html (23/12/98)
Clinton, sobre Monica, em depoimento ao júri de instrução
Fonte: Revista Veja http://veja.abril.com.br/231298/p_012.html (23/12/98)
Monica, ao júri de instrução, sobre Clinton
Fonte: Revista Veja http://veja.abril.com.br/231298/p_012.html (23/12/98)
“Eu tive um relacionamento com a senhorita Lewinsky que não foi apropriado.”
Clinton, admitindo na televisão o caso com Monica
Fonte: Revista Veja http://veja.abril.com.br/231298/p_012.html (23/12/98)
Bill Clinton, presidente americano, em palestra na Rússia
Fonte: Revista Veja http://veja.abril.com.br/231298/p_012.html (23/12/98)
Bill Clinton, ex-presidente americano, falando à rede de televisão CBS sobre seu envolvimento com a estagiária da Casa Branca, que quase custou seu mandato
Fonte: Revista Veja http://veja.abril.com.br/230604/vejaessa.html, Edição 1859 - 23 de junho de 2004.
Bill Clinton, ex-presidente americano, inaugurando sua biblioteca presidencial, em Little Rock, Arkansas, sua terra natal
Fonte: Revista Veja http://veja.abril.com.br/241104/vejaessa.html, Edição 1881 - 24 de novembro de 2004.
“Ela me olhou como se eu lhe tivesse dado um soco no estômago e quis torcer o meu pescoço.”
Bill Clinton, sobre o momento em que contou à esposa Hillary sobre o affair. Passou dois meses dormindo no sofá.
Fonte: Revista ISTOÉ Gente, edição 255 http://www.terra.com.br/istoegente/255/frases/index.htm (28/06/2004)
“Vou promover o fado no mundo todo. Acho que o fado se tornou a maior paixão de minha vida.”
Bill Clinton, presidente americano, dizendo-se apaixonado pela melancólica música portuguesa; citado em Revista Veja, Edição 1 653 - 14/6/2000 http://veja.abril.com.br/140600/vejaessa.html
Television interview on MTV's Enough is Enough (19 April 1994) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=49995
1990s
Contexto: When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly. That is, when we set up this country, abuse of people by Government was a big problem. So if you read the Constitution, it's rooted in the desire to limit the ability of — Government's ability to mess with you, because that was a huge problem. It can still be a huge problem. But it assumed that people would basically be raised in coherent families, in coherent communities, and they would work for the common good, as well as for the individual welfare.
“Everytime you cut off somebody else's opportunity you shrink your own horizon”
Bill Clinton on why he helps other people. http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/z4m9xu/colbert-galactic-initiative---bill-clinton-pt--1, August 2013
2010s
Contexto: I want to leave my daughter, and my grandchildren I hope to have and all these young people, a better world. And I think the reason you should do things for other people at bottom is selfish. There is no real difference between selfish and selfless if you understand how the world works. We all tied together. [... ] Everytime you cut off somebody else's opportunity you shrink your own horizon.
"A Place Called Hope" (July 16, 1992)
1990s, A Place Called Hope (16 July 1992)
Contexto: It is time to heal America. And so we must say to every American: Look beyond the stereotypes that blind us. We need each other. All of us, we need each other. We don't have a person to waste. And yet for too long politicians have told the most of us that are doing all right that what's really wrong with America is the rest of us. Them. Them, the minorities. Them, the liberals. Them, the poor. Them, the homeless. Them, the people with disabilities. Them, the gays. We've gotten to where we've nearly "them"ed ourselves to death. Them and them and them. But this is America. There is no them; there's only us. One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty, and justice, for all.
“We need each other. All of us, we need each other. We don't have a person to waste.”
"A Place Called Hope" (July 16, 1992)
1990s, A Place Called Hope (16 July 1992)
Contexto: It is time to heal America. And so we must say to every American: Look beyond the stereotypes that blind us. We need each other. All of us, we need each other. We don't have a person to waste. And yet for too long politicians have told the most of us that are doing all right that what's really wrong with America is the rest of us. Them. Them, the minorities. Them, the liberals. Them, the poor. Them, the homeless. Them, the people with disabilities. Them, the gays. We've gotten to where we've nearly "them"ed ourselves to death. Them and them and them. But this is America. There is no them; there's only us. One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty, and justice, for all.
“There is no real difference between selfish and selfless”
Bill Clinton on why he helps other people. http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/z4m9xu/colbert-galactic-initiative---bill-clinton-pt--1, August 2013
2010s
Contexto: I want to leave my daughter, and my grandchildren I hope to have and all these young people, a better world. And I think the reason you should do things for other people at bottom is selfish. There is no real difference between selfish and selfless if you understand how the world works. We all tied together. [... ] Everytime you cut off somebody else's opportunity you shrink your own horizon.
“I end tonight where it all began for me: I still believe in a place called Hope.”
"A Place Called Hope" (July 16, 1992)
1990s, A Place Called Hope (16 July 1992)
Second inaugural address (January 20, 1997)
1990s
Contexto: Our rich texture of racial, religious and political diversity will be a Godsend in the 21st century. Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
State of the Union address http://millercenter.org/president/clinton/speeches/speech-3440 (24 January 1995)
1990s
Contexto: All Americans, not only in the States most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens. In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.
Writing on the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing
2010s
Contexto: p>Americans have more freedom and broader rights than citizens of almost any other nation in the world, including the capacity to criticize their government and their elected officials. But we do not have the right to resort to violence — or the threat of violence — when we don’t get our way. Our founders constructed a system of government so that reason could prevail over fear. Oklahoma City proved once again that without the law there is no freedom.Criticism is part of the lifeblood of democracy. No one is right all the time. But we should remember that there is a big difference between criticizing a policy or a politician and demonizing the government that guarantees our freedoms and the public servants who enforce our laws.</p
At a Labour Party conference in the UK, quoted in The Independent. "Clinton urges caution over Iraq as Bush is granted war powers" (3 October 2002) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/clinton-urges-caution-over-iraq-as-bush-is-granted-war-powers-607775.html
2000s
Contexto: A preemptive action today, however well-justified, may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future. And because … I've done this. I've ordered these kinds of actions — I don't care how precise your bombs and your weapons are, when you set them off, innocent people will die.
“It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.”
Grand jury testimony (August 17, 1998), answering questions about his attorney's description of an affidavit by Monica Lewinsky
1990s
Contexto: It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the—if he—if '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.
At a Labour Party conference in the UK, quoted in The Independent. "Clinton urges caution over Iraq as Bush is granted war powers" (3 October 2002) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/clinton-urges-caution-over-iraq-as-bush-is-granted-war-powers-607775.html
2000s
Contexto: A preemptive action today, however well-justified, may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future. And because … I've done this. I've ordered these kinds of actions — I don't care how precise your bombs and your weapons are, when you set them off, innocent people will die.
2000s
Variante: The world has always been more impressed by the power of our [America's] example than by the example of our power.
Contexto: Former U. S. president Bill Clinton has urged newspaper editors to focus more attention on the depletion of the world's oil reserves. In a June 17 speech to the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies convention in Little Rock, Arkansas, Clinton said a "significant number of petroleum geologists" have warned that the world could be nearing the peak in oil production. Clinton suggested that at current consumption rates (now more than 30 billion barrels per year, according to the International Energy Agency), the world could be out of "recoverable oil" in 35 to 50 years, elevating the risk of "And then finally, and I think most important of all, more important than the deficit, more important then healthcare, more important than anything, is we have got to do something about our energy strategy because if we permit the climate to continue to warm at an unsustainable rate, and if we keep on doing what we're doing 'til we're out of oil and we haven't made the transition, then it's inconceivable to me that our children and grandchildren will be able to maintain the American way of life and that the world won't be much fuller of resource-based wars of all kinds.”
Televised address on August 17, 1998 CNN transcript http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/08/17/speech/transcript.html
1990s
2012-09-05 Democratic National Convention Speech in Charlotte, North Carolina http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/05/transcript-bill-clinton-speech-at-dnc/
2010s
“It’s a great thing about not being office—you can just say whatever you want.”
Bill Clinton on Libya, Peter King, and more http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/03/11/bill-clinton-on-libya-peter-king-and-more.html, March 2011.
2010s
First inaugural address (January 20, 1993), Washington, D.C.
1990s
At a benefit dinner hosted by the Canadian Jewish Congress in Toronto, Ontario, 2002 CNN Transcript http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0208/02/cf.00.html
2000s
“[Iraq is] not Vietnam, we have a government that has a support of the majority of the people.”
Late Show with David Letterman, June 16, 2005
2000s
March 20, 2008 http://www.townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2008/03/22/obama_adviser_faults_bill_clinton_speech
2000s
“I have met all the most gifted people in our generation and you're the best.”
To Hillary Rodham Clinton when they both attended Yale University, repeated in a 2007 campaign speech. http://economist.com/world/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9904609
2000s
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