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Former President Bill Clinton, whose energetic efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal collapsed, urged both sides Saturday to end their decades-old conflict, saying they cannot escape their common future.
Former President Bill Clinton plans to visit Capitol Hill on Tuesday to discuss health care legislation with Senate Democrats.
Majority Leader Harry Reid is considering a plan for higher payroll taxes on the upper-income earners to help finance health care legislation he intends to introduce in the Senate in the next several days, numerous Democratic officials said Wednesday.
Former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday drew a link between extremism and lack of opportunity in the Middle East, telling students in the region that suicide bombers are driven by a feeling they have more to gain in the afterlife than now.
Thousands of ethnic Albanians braved low temperatures and a cold wind in Kosovo's capital Pristina to welcome former President Bill Clinton on Sunday as he attended the unveiling of an 11-foot (3.5-meter) statue of himself on a key boulevard that also bears his name.
President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton are lending their political star power to an unlikely Democratic bid to win a special congressional election in an area that's been a Republican bastion for more than a century.
Bill Clinton grimaced Friday as he recalled the severe embargo he oversaw as president against Haiti's then-brutal regime, a move that destroyed the very economy he is now fighting to revive.
A former top aide to Bill Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas has pleaded not guilty to charges of trying to smuggle contraband into a prison.
Bill Clinton, slathered in sunscreen, urged Americans to explore the riches of Haitian tourism on Friday as he took a VIP trip to a mountain palace and a nearby beach where a cruise ship pier is being built.
With his campaign for governor off to a sluggish start, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom enlisted former President Bill Clinton on Monday to help him raise political funds and the visibility of his candidacy.
Former President Bill Clinton predicts that Democrats won't suffer the kind of political meltdown that hobbled his administration after the 1994 elections.
Bill Clinton says he has no thoughts about returning to public office.
Bill Clinton says a vast, right-wing conspiracy that once targeted him is now focusing on President Barack Obama.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton outlined steps to deal with world hunger in the closing address Friday at the annual global issues conference started by her husband.
President Barack Obama says former President Bill Clinton should be credited with saving millions of lives around the world since leaving the White House.
Dan Brown's new novel has passed the 2 million mark and bested Bill Clinton's "My Life" in the record books.
Former President Bill Clinton says New York's Gov. David Paterson is "not in good shape now" politically, but that Paterson ultimately will consider what's best for his state before deciding whether to run next year.
Former President Bill Clinton says Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is "lashing out at the world" right now and that it's important for U.S. leaders to figure out why.
Former President Bill Clinton says he believes President Barack Obama is wise to step back and rethink U.S. policy in Afghanistan before approving the dispatch of additional U.S. troops there.
Former President Bill Clinton says he doesn't think racism is a principal factor in resistance to President Barack Obama's plan for overhauling health care.
The Prince of Wales slept here. So did Abe Lincoln. And Teddy Roosevelt and Ulysses S. Grant. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev during the Cold War. More recently: Bill Clinton and John McCain.
As New York Gov. David Paterson's political vitality fades and a court decision over his lieutenant governor choice threatens to weaken his presumed chief rival for the 2010 gubernatorial nomination, Republicans sense a hole opening in the Democrats' wall of invincibility in the state and are seizing the day.
Former President Bill Clinton described Melvin Simon as one of the most remarkable people he's ever met as he gave a eulogy Friday during the funeral for the billionaire shopping mall developer and Indiana Pacers co-owner.
President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton met privately for about 90 minutes on Monday, discussing the global economy over a meal in Manhattan.
Barack Obama faces the same obstacles that plagued former President Bill Clinton during a health care standoff 15 years ago. But Obama took a strikingly different path around them Wednesday night, choosing the promise of compromise over Clinton's sharp-edged veto pen.
Multi-National companies did business in South Africa during Apartheid and exploited the social system engineered by the National Party responsible for the repression and exploitation of the majority of the population.
After spending binge, White House says it will focus on deficitsplans to announce in next year's State of the Union address that he wants to focus extensively on cutting the federal deficit in 2010 – and will downplay other new domestic spending beyond jobs programs, according to top aides involved in the planning.
Racism in the Republican PartyConor Friedersdorf on how the GOP can repair its image—and the myths the left perpetuates.
The rise of the rightThe bottom line on last week's elections: The Republicans did well. Yes, these were a grab-bag collection of races with local particularities and low turnout.
Bill Clinton v George W Bush SmackdownFormer Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are scheduled to appear on the same stage at the "Minds That Move The World" series at Radio City Music Hall on February 25, 2010. Air America has obtained an exclusive preview from the upcoming event.
BREAKING NEWS - The 3,500 people in attendance at the Rothman Center agree that Barack Obama is even more awesome in person.
I don't know how many people get to say that... or when i will ever get the chance to meet even ONE other president, but the last two days have been amazing for someone like me who LOVES politics and who is such a big fan of Barack Obama!
This is a big week for Jon Corzine. He's been surging in the polls and just got endorsed by the New York Times. This is a big campaign week for him as I mentioned previously.
Gary Null's reply to Rabbi Michael Lerner.
It has been a long summer so far for New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine. He's been down in the polls all summer long but this week just might be what the doctor ordered for this once stagnant campaign.
Obama, man of peace? No, just a Nobel prize of a mistakeThe US president received an award in the faint hope that he will succeed in the future. That's how desperate the Middle East situation has become
Barack Obama's Nobel peace prize is snub to Bill Clinton - Times Although the award of the Nobel peace prize to President Barack Obama was widely interpreted as a repudiation of the Republican era of George W Bush, the real snub may have been to Bill Clinton.
The vast right-wing conspiracy is back | Salon Wearily familiar as he is with the "vast right-wing conspiracy," Bill Clinton says the network that sought to destroy him and his wife, Hillary, remains malignant as ever, yet lacks the might of a decade ago.
Bill Clinton says Vast, Right-Wing Conspiracy Gunning for Obama When asked whether the "vast right-wing conspiracy" is still present today, the former president answered without hesitation, "Oh you bet."
Does Chris Matthews remember his own interviews?excerpt: ""But in dismissing Clinton's comments about the "vast right-wing conspiracy" working against him in the 1990s, Matthews ignored a key part of what Clinton said.
Bill Clinton Revives 'Vast, Right-Wing Conspiracy'Bill Clinton said a vast, right-wing conspiracy that once targeted him is now focusing on President Obama.
Bill Clinton: 'Vast right-wing conspiracy' still going strongFormer President Bill Clinton said Sunday that the "vast right-wing conspiracy" that worked against his presidency is alive and well, albeit in slightly reduced numbers.
Yes, You Can Be a Democrat and Racist at the Same TimeRacism is not the the sole domain of Republicans, Conservatives or Southerners. Being liberal does not give you a free pass on racial politics.
Has Obama Outsmarted us All? Approval Rating Leveling out to Low 50 Percents (Same as Reagan and Clinton at This Point in Their Presidencies); Majority Souring on Republican TacticsAccording to Gallup poll results released on Wednesday, the president's approval rating has stopped falling and has leveled out in the low-50 percents, about the same as Ronald Reagan's and Bill Clinton's at this point in their presidencies (both two-termers, lest we forget …
What really happened between Barak and Arafat at Camp David? The person who headed the Palestinian desk in the research division of Military Intelligence, Ephraim Lavie, along with his counterpart in the Mossad, Yossi Ben-Ari, and Matti Steinberg, then an adviser to the Shin Bet security forces chief, told me there was no intelligence-rela …
Colbert slams racially-tinged remarks by Beck and LimbaughThe Colbert Report takes on racially tinged remarks that have been aired by Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. He covers responses from Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton to racism today. This leads to his special report , "The Word". Enjoy!
Strength has Kept the Obamas Together; Barack calls Michelle, "My Chief Counsel"; Michelle Pushed for "Yes We Can" and Gave the "Thumbs Down" on Hillary as Possible VP Running MateMichelle and Barack Obama's marriage was so shaky at one point that they almost separated, according to a new book that gives what it says is a behind-the-scenes look at the Obamas' life together.
Bill Clinton weighs in on charges of racism against Obama"I believe that some of the right-wing extremists which oppose President Obama are also racially prejudiced and would prefer not to have an African-American president," Clinton told CNN's Larry King in an interview to air Monday evening.
Michelle Obama Reportedly Nixed Idea of Hillary Clinton for VeepObama Marriage Examined in New Book A new book on the Obamas' marriage, 'Barack and Michelle: Portrait of a Marriage,' says that Michelle Obama has influenced some important moves in her husband's political career, and that the couple have faced some struggles in their relationsh …
Conservatism Is Dead!Digging deep into the roots and evolution of the American conservative movement, Sam Tanenhaus talks with Bill Moyers about why he believes that conservatism is dead and how it might yet come back to life.
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