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"But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House."
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"The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically."


"If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook."


"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded."


"And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration."


"It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them."


"The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we've fallen, and how we've declined under Bush."


"Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House."


"It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book."


"It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%."
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