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

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.

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

22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush.

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

The book shows Clinton in the presidency as a profile in growth.

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.

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.

As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.

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.

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

Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.

The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

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

At the same time, Clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy.

The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.

Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism.

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.

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%.

On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.

Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key national security group of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism.

What happened to the Bush Administration regarding terrorism is that they regarded it as a secondary issue, and associated with Clinton. One of those Clinton issues.

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.

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

We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings.

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Any form of a winning record in the conference is an accomplishment.

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

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.

To be loved is important as is having a sense of accomplishment but to love is equally important in life especially when it is combined with taking action to do something for someone else to make their life better.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

I can now successfully drive a stick. That's a huge accomplishment.

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.