“I have met all the most gifted people in our generation and you're the best.”

— Bill Clinton

To Hillary Rodham Clinton when they both attended Yale University, repeated in a 2007 campaign speech. http://economist.com/world/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9904609
2000s

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