You don't have to wait till your party's in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world.
Interpretation
One can influence their community and the world regardless of political power.
This quote by William J. Clinton emphasizes the importance of individual and collective action in creating change, suggesting that one does not need to hold formal power to make a meaningful impact in their community or beyond. It serves as a reminder that engaged citizenship, advocacy, and personal responsibility are crucial in shaping the world, irrespective of who is in political power.
In practice
During a community meeting, you could say, 'As Clinton once said, you don't have to wait for political power to make a difference in our community.'
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.
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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.
Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.
The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
Every one of us has the capacity to lead.
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital.
The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.
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