You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being and that of your family and your country.
Interpretation
Personal and societal well-being requires intentional choices for change.
This quote by William J. Clinton emphasizes the necessity of making deliberate choices to initiate change not only for oneself but also for the benefit of one's family and society as a whole. It suggests that progress and improvement in our lives and communities rest on our shoulders, advocating for personal responsibility and collective action towards betterment.
In practice
In a motivational speech about community service.
You know, there was a recent poll which said that young people in the generation of the students here felt it was far more likely that they would see a UFO than that they would draw Social Security... It's very important you understand this. Once you understand this, you realize this is not an episode from the X Files, and you're not more likely to see a UFO if you do certain specific things.
When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to Americans, it was assumed that Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly...When personal freedom is being abused, you have to move to limit it.
For too long we've been told about 'us' and 'them.' Each and every election we see a new slate of arguments and ads telling us that 'they' are the problem, not 'us.' But there can be no 'them' in America. There's only us.
There is a huge body of business evidence now showing that energy savings give better service at lower cost with higher profit. We have to tear down barriers to successful markets and we have to create incentives to enter them.
Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the United States. And the more disease there is, the more political unrest there will be, leading to more Darfurs, which the U.S. will have to pay to fix.
I was not elected to produce a pile of vetoes.
I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody’s buying them. I’m excited about that. Money and desire—all that is going to collapse, and wild green grasses are going to take over.
All I am certain of right now is that I don't want to go anywhere, and that's not bad for someone who always used to run.
When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.
'Hairspray' maybe did change people's minds, and that's how you get your political enemies to change their minds - by making them laugh and making them look at something in a way they haven't seen it. Not by preaching and cutting them off and being a separatist.
The best answer to the extremists is to build a better world.
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
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