During the sole argument we had when [Chelsea] was in high school, the subject of which I don't even remember, I looked at her and said, 'As long as you're in this house, being president is my second most important job'.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of family over professional responsibilities.
In this quote, William J. Clinton reflects on a pivotal moment in his relationship with his daughter, Chelsea. He conveys that despite the demands of being the President of the United States, his primary commitment is to his family and the well-being of his daughter, suggesting that personal relationships and family are paramount, even for someone in a powerful position.
In practice
In a speech about valuing family time over career aspirations.
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 watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.
"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'
Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.
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