"I believed when I got here that there was a chance that we could have a very long period of economic growth. Now I couldnt have known, when we started and we started slashing the deficit and investing more in technology, that we would have the longest economic expansion in history that would even outstrip wartime when we had been fully mobilized."
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"I think what Ill miss the most is the work, the job, the contact with all kinds of people and all kinds of issues, the ability to make a difference, to solve problems, to open up opportunities for other people. Theres almost no--not almost, I suppose there is no job like it in the world. Its been an unbelievable thrill and a profound honor, and I will miss it very much."
60 Minutes"I have done everything I could as President to try to organize the permanent Government, the people who will be here when I am gone, and the Congress to deal with the long-term threat of biological, chemical, and small scale nuclear war, as well as the increasing sophistication of traditional weapons."
60 Minutes"I think the most important thing is for me to be a useful citizen of this country and of this world, because Ive had opportunities here only my other living predecessors have had. And I think that for me to be able to continue the work Ive done in racial and religious and ethnic reconciliation and trying to convince people that we can grow the global economy and still preserve the environment and trying to empower the poor and the dispossessed, in trying to spread the universal impact of education and use technology to benefit ordinary people, these kinds of things--I think I should continue to do this work and trying--I want to get young people into public service. I want them to believe this is noble and important work."
60 Minutes"I would remind you that in the United States we had an increasing gap between the rich and the poor for about 20 years, as we moved into this new economic phase. The same thing happened when we changed from being an agricultural economy to an industrial economy. In the last 2 or 3 years, we started to see the gap close again. And the answer is not to run away from globalization. The answer is to make change our friend. The answer is to have broad access to information and information technology, to have broad-based systems of education and health care and family supports in every country, and to continue to try to shape the global economy."
60 Minutes"It’s been a tradition for more than half a century that the major party candidates for president sit down with 60 Minutes in October. In 1968, it was Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. This year, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump accepted invitations."
60 Minutes"One would think that making a film is an ; youre building this—its not, its . The best metaphor I know of is we make in [] and it takes forty gallons of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup. And thats what the process is."
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