Bill Clinton Quotes
You can't have generation after generation not knowing work.
William Clinton, 42nd President of the United States (Democrat, AR), Interview, NBC Meet the Press, November 7, 1993
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This is a fascinating historical quotation. It illustrates that each generation claims that the love of work and the work ethic is not what it used to be.
She was running for the Democratic Presidential Nomination.
There were by then few jobs left in the American economy that did not require fundamental literacy and most required post secondary education as well.
This statement was a total reverse of his predecessor’s policy. Hoover stubbornly refused to consider any direct relief for workers on the philosophical ground that it would weaken their character, make them dependent, and provide benefits for the people who were not working so the motivation to work would be lessened. When FDR pronounced this on the radio, it dramatically reversed U. S. policy and gave many people hope that the government might do something about the depression rather than just wait out the business cycle.
Every generation seems to think that youth of their day do not have the work ethic that was evident in the past, but as this historical quotation illustrates, the past was very much the same and we tend to have a cultural nostalgia for an imagined past.
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who was the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Clinton was previously Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992, and the Arkansas Attorney General from 1977 to 1979. Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III – he changed to his stepfather's name at age 15.
