"You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say."
     -- President William Clinton 5/29/93
(1st Amendment)


Warrants? We don't need no stinkin' Warrants!
     "[President Clinton] said he directed advisers to craft a policy allowing police to search public housing for weapons in the wake of a federal court order barring Chicago officials from conducting sweeps without search warrants." - Associated Press: (Chicago Tribune, 4/10/94 Section 1 page 10)
(4th Amendment)

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"We will condition favorable trade terms with repressive regimes--such as China's Communist regime--on respect for human rights, political liberalization, and responsible international conduct."
Putting People First, September 1992.

"We will link China's trading privileges to its human rights record and its conduct on trade and weapon sales."
August 13, 1992.

"I am moving, therefore, to delink human rights from the annual extension of most-favored nation trading status for China."
May 26, 1994.

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.. a lot of the Asian societies that are doing very well now have low crime rates and high economic growth rates, partly because they have very coherent societies with strong units where the unit is more important than the individual, whether it's the family unit or the work unit or the community unit.  My own view is that you can go to the extreme in either direction. And when we got orgnized 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 used 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.

What's happened in America today is, too many people live in areas where there's no family structure, no community structure, and no work structure. And so there's a lot of irresponsibility. 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. So that's my answer to you. We can have -- the more personal freedom a society has, the more personal responsibility a society needs, and the more strength you need out of your institutions -- family, community and work.

-- Bill Clinton, President of the United States, on MTV's "Enough Is Enough."
(4th Amendment)

"The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth."
-- Bill Clinton, Oct. 15, 1995 at the University of Connecticut.

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"If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people he should resign."

"No question that an admission of making false statements to government officials and interfering with the FBI and the CIA is an impeachable offense."

"I think it's plain that the president should resign and spare the country the agony of this impeachment and removal proceeding, I think the country could be spared a lot of agony and the government could worry about inflation and a lot of other problems if he'd go on and resign."

-- Bill Clinton on president Nixon, 1974

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"Mine will be the most ethical administration in the history of the republic!"
- ( President-Elect Bill Clinton, November 1992. )