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Nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up. -- William J. Clinton
When I started out in public life there used to be a saying we'd hear from time to time, that every man who runs for public office will claim that he was born in a log cabin he built with his own hands. Well, my mother knew better. And she made sure I did too. -- William J. Clinton
The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect. -- William J. Clinton
I knew from the minute I saw her (Hillary) that if I got involved with her I would fall in love with her. -- William J. Clinton
We will lower the tax burden on middle class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair share. Middle class taxpayers will have a choice between a children's tax credit or a significant reduction in their income tax rate. -- William J. Clinton
Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone. -- William J. Clinton
People should really take care when they vote, and pay more attention to what people say they're going to do - instead of just how they feel about how things are going. -- William J. Clinton
Indeed I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong -- William J. Clinton
If President Reagan could be an actor and become president, maybe I could become an actor. I've got a good pension. I can work for cheap. -- William J. Clinton
If you believe in the values of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, if you're willing to work hard and play by the rules, you are part of our family. And we're proud to be with you. -- William J. Clinton
Taxing less and spending more.. it's fun in the short run, but it's a recipe for disaster. -- William J. Clinton
A few months ago, and again this week, bin Laden publicly vowed to publicly wage a terrorist war against America, saying, and I quote, "We do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians. They're all targets." Their mission is murder, and their history is bloody. -- William J. Clinton
It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine: First and most important, my family; also my friends, my staff, my Cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family, and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness. -- William J. Clinton
Well, I don't have much job security. -- William J. Clinton
When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport. -- William J. Clinton
We will stand mighty for peace and freedom and maintain a strong defense against terror and destruction. Our children will sleep free from the threat of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons. -- William J. Clinton
The new energy future is decentralised, entrepreneurial and needs people like you to say 'Give me a clean car, give me solar shingles to put on my roof - give me a clean future' -- William J. Clinton
Our paradigm now seems to be: Something terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the right to interpret all future events in a way that everyone else in the world must agree with us. And if they don't, they can go straight to hell. -- William J. Clinton
We [United States] are the only military superpower. We have no idea how long this is going to last, so we ought to get every bad guy we can and fix every problem we can. -- William J. Clinton
Forget what you may have heard about a digital divide or worries that the world is splintering into 'info haves' and 'info have-nots.' The fact is, technology fosters equality, and it's often the relatively cheap and mundane devices that do the most good. -- William J. Clinton
Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation. -- William J. Clinton
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web ... Now even my cat has its own page. -- William J. Clinton
Politics is for people who are too ugly to get into showbusiness. -- William J. Clinton
The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America. -- William J. Clinton
The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past time for us to take action to correct these problems. -- William J. Clinton
[They let] friendship with the leaders in China obscure our devotion to freedom and democracy when those kids set up in Tiananmen Square, and I think it was wrong. -- William J. Clinton
When Chelsea was 9 months old, I was defeated for reelection in the Reagan landslide. And I became overnight, I think, the youngest former governor in the history of the country. We only had two-year terms back then. -- William J. Clinton
The other thing we have to do is to take seriously the role in this problem of ... older men who prey on underage women ... There are consequences to decisions and ... one way or the other, people always wind up being held accountable. -- William J. Clinton
After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This formal acknowledgment comes far too late but still we must all welcome it. It can be the beginning of clearing the air. -- William J. Clinton
Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment. -- William J. Clinton
Sure enough at Oxford, I was another Yank half a step behind. -- William J. Clinton
We simply have to transition from an economy based almost exclusively on oil and coal and natural gas to one that's far more diversified, that uses solar energy, and wind energy, and the power of the tides, and bio-mass energy, and eventually, develops hydrogen. -- William J. Clinton
Without question, bicycling is an efficient, economical and environmentally sound form of transportation and recreation. Bicycling is a great activity for families, recreational riders and commuters. Hillary, Chelsea and I have bicycles ... -- William J. Clinton
You don't have to be an elected official to be a public servant. -- William J. Clinton
The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically. -- William J. Clinton
There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government. -- William J. Clinton
[Americans know] the traditional values of Islam, devotion to faith and good works, to family and society, are in harmony with the best of American ideals. -- William J. Clinton
You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any other country in the world. You vote for me and I'll give you family values. -- William J. Clinton
Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure. -- William J. Clinton
Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that. -- William J. Clinton
It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing. -- William J. Clinton
If you win elections on the theory that government is always bad and will mess up a two-car parade ... a real change-maker represents a real threat. So your only option is to create a cartoon, a cartoon alternative, then run against the cartoon. Cartoons are two-dimensional; they're easy to absorb. -- William J. Clinton
The hard fact is that so long as Saddam remains in power, he threatens the well-being of his people, the peace of his region, and the security of the world. -- William J. Clinton
Nothing in our lifetimes has been more heartening than when people of the former Soviet Union and Central Europe broke the grip of communism. We have aided their progress and I am proud of it. -- William J. Clinton
I think just about everybody ought to get a second chance and I'd like to see it worked out, because he (Pete Rose) brought a lot of joy to the game, and he gave a lot of joy to people, and he's paid a price - God knows, he's paid a price. -- William J. Clinton
We must work tirelessly to make sure that every boy and girl in America who is up for adoption has a family waiting to reach him or her ... This is a season of miracles, and perhaps there is no greater miracle than finding a loving home for a child who needs one. -- William J. Clinton
I did a lot of work on energy efficiency at the White House. By the time I left we had taken the equivalent of six hundred cars a year off the road in reduced greenhouse gas emissions just in the White House complex. -- William J. Clinton
There's a big conservative press unabashedly and for the Democrats and even people to the left of the Democratic party, there's almost virtually no outlets that you can compare with the vast array of conservative press that's out there. -- William J. Clinton
I want to make it very clear that this middle-class tax cut, in my view, is central to any attempt we're going to make to have a short-term economic strategy and a long-term fairness strategy, which is part of getting this country going again. -- William J. Clinton
I'm very proud that the first bill I had the opportunity to sign into law as President was the Family and Medical Leave Act No parent should ever have to choose between work and family; between earning a decent wage and caring for a child. -- William J. Clinton
To avoid having bad things happen, learning to manage your anger and to actually share how you really feel about something, and get it behind you is one of the most important aspects of growing up. -- William J. Clinton
We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family. -- William J. Clinton
I married my best friend. I was still in awe after more than four years of being around her at how smart and strong and loving and caring she was. And I really hoped that her choosing me and rejecting my advice to pursue her own career was a decision she would never regret. -- William J. Clinton
Our policy is guided by the principle that we will keep unauthorized aliens out of the United States, welcome legal immigrants, and protect refugees from harm. Our solutions rely on working in partnership with States and communities. -- William J. Clinton
When I was president, I knew exactly what I wanted to do every day to bring America together and create a greater sense of opportunity and a larger sense of responsibility and a stronger sense of community. -- William J. Clinton
Sharing in God's blessings is at the heart of Thanksgiving and at the core of the American spirit. -- William J. Clinton
There seems to be no mainframe explanation for the PC world in which we're living. -- William J. Clinton
The people have spoken, but it will take a while to determine exactly what they said. -- William J. Clinton
Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic. -- William J. Clinton
Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty. -- William J. Clinton
People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons. -- William J. Clinton
A world without walls is the only sustainable world ... If the world is dominated by people who believe that their races, their religions, their ethnic differences are the most important factors, then a huge number of people will perish in this century. -- William J. Clinton
Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits. -- William J. Clinton
When you stifle human potential, when you don't invest in new ideas, it doesn't just cut off the people who are affected. It hurts us all. -- William J. Clinton
If there's grass in the field, play ball! -- William J. Clinton
I was an equal opportunity eater. Every ethnic group got a shot. -- William J. Clinton
Education is not a privilege, it is a right! -- William J. Clinton
I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake. -- William J. Clinton
When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps -- William J. Clinton
Without a high pain threshold, you can't be a successful President. -- William J. Clinton
And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000. -- William J. Clinton
What's a man got to do to get in the top fifty? -- William J. Clinton
All my life I've been interested in other people's stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them. -- William J. Clinton
If you think the President was right to open the doors of American opportunity to young immigrants brought here as children who want to go to college or serve in the military, you should vote for Barack Obama. -- William J. Clinton
Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life. -- William J. Clinton
In speaking powerfully and eloquently for mercy and reconciliation to people divided by old hatreds and persecuted by abuse of power, the Holy Father was a beacon of light not just for Catholics, but for all people. -- William J. Clinton
The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military. -- William J. Clinton
In the emerging global economy, everything is mobile: capital, factories, even entire industries. The only resource that's really rooted in a nation
and the ultimate source of all its wealth
is its people. -- William J. Clinton
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. -- William J. Clinton
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. -- William J. Clinton
I believe that those who promote discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or any other grounds are gravely mistaken about the values that make our nation strong. I will continue to move my administration in the direction of compassion, acceptance, and understanding. -- William J. Clinton
The future belongs to those who are creative collaborators -- William J. Clinton
One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old "sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me." -- William J. Clinton
Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow citizens, this is our time. Let us embrace it. -- William J. Clinton
At the dawn of the 21st century, a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the Information Age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and yes, to form a more perfect union. -- William J. Clinton
Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents. -- William J. Clinton
I'm pretty good at seeing like a lot of different things happening at once and putting them in a pattern and figuring out how you can rearrange it so it might have a better outcome. -- William J. Clinton
I may not have been the greatest president, but I've had the most fun eight years. -- William J. Clinton
Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows. -- William J. Clinton
Our country [America] is still the strongest force for peace and freedom on earth. -- William J. Clinton
Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't. -- William J. Clinton
President Obama's approach embodies the values, the ideas, and the direction America must take to build a 21st century version of the American Dream in a nation of shared opportunities, shared prosperity and shared responsibilities. -- William J. Clinton
If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees. -- William J. Clinton
We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria. -- William J. Clinton
The United States should ... avoid unilateral export controls and controls on technology widely available in world markets. Unilateral controls penalize U.S. exporters without advancing U.S. national security or foreign policy interests. -- William J. Clinton
The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it, the 21st century will be the most interesting, exciting, peaceful era in history. -- William J. Clinton
We cannot become the world's policeman, but where our values and our interests are at stake, and where we can make a difference, we must act and we must lead. That is our job and we are better, stronger and safer because we are doing it. -- William J. Clinton
Along the way they're (MLB) going to lose millions of more American fans ... -- William J. Clinton
I spent a lot of time when I was president, trying to end wars, prevent killing, and promote understanding. What I have seen is that peace works better than conflict, and one of the best manifestations of it is in travel and tourism. -- William J. Clinton
Let's create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don't fight because of our differences. -- William J. Clinton
We [Democrats] have got to be strong. When we look weak in a time where people feel insecure, we lose. when people feel uncertain, they'd rather have somebody who's strong and wrong than somebody who's weak and right. -- William J. Clinton
Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service ... -- William J. Clinton
If you're a Muslim and you love America and freedom and you hate terror, stay here and help us win and make a future together. We want you. -- William J. Clinton
Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens. -- William J. Clinton
Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms. -- William J. Clinton
If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather. -- William J. Clinton
[It] has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from immigrants. -- William J. Clinton
Only astrophysicists new about the Internet 20 years ago. Today my cat has a website. -- William J. Clinton
We respect the individual conscience of every American on the painful issue of abortion, but believe as a matter of law that this decision should be left to a woman, her conscience, her doctor and her God. But abortion should not only be be safe and legal, it should be rare. -- William J. Clinton
I'm proud to say that there is not a single Russian nuclear missile pointed at an American child. -- William J. Clinton
[George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better. -- William J. Clinton
By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum wage for the entire year. -- William J. Clinton
Music is about communication, creativity, and cooperation, and by studying music in schools, students have the opportunity to build on these skills, enrich their lives, and experience the world from a new perspective. -- William J. Clinton
Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening. -- William J. Clinton
If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better, you know it's hard, and some people think it's boring. -- William J. Clinton
I was not elected to produce a pile of vetoes. -- William J. Clinton
What are the needs of the world? What can I do that won't be done if I don't do it? -- William J. Clinton
You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year. -- William J. Clinton
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. -- William J. Clinton
I'm Bill Clinton and I think you deserve a change. That's why I've offered a plan to get the economy moving again, starting with a middle-class tax cut ... -- William J. Clinton
We should set a national goal of making computers and Internet access available for every American ... we must help all Americans gain the skills they need to make the most of the connection. -- William J. Clinton
I recently spoke with Barbara Jordan of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, and I increasingly believe we need a system to verify employment eligibility. The Commission's recommendation of a national registry may be the way to go. -- William J. Clinton
Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life -- William J. Clinton
Some people say well we need a change. Hillary Clinton is been around a long, she sure has, and she's sure been worth every single year she's put into making people's lives better. -- William J. Clinton
We have no intention of abandoning the American people to unproven theories and extreme positions. We're the people party and we're going to stick up for the people. -- William J. Clinton
I want to nominate a man who's cool on the outside, but who burns for America on the inside. -- William J. Clinton
Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. -- William J. Clinton
Nothing big ever came from being small. -- William J. Clinton
You know what higher interest rates mean. To you it means a higher mortgage payment, a higher car payment, a higher credit card payment. To our economy it means businesspeople will not borrow as much money, invest as much money, create as many new jobs, create as much wealth, raise as many raises. -- William J. Clinton
We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither. -- William J. Clinton
We need to help younger people recognize their own capacity to do good, and help them discover the rewards of generosity. -- William J. Clinton
One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future. -- William J. Clinton
President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself. -- William J. Clinton
Let us do the work that is before us, so that when our time here is over we will all watch the sun go down as we all must, and say truly, we have prepared our children for the dawn. -- William J. Clinton
The Constitution is a radical document ... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights. -- William J. Clinton
We simply cannot afford to give the reigns of government so someone who will double down on trickle down -- William J. Clinton
Remember, Republican economic policies quadrupled the debt before I took office and doubled it after I left. We simply can't afford to double-down on trickle-down. -- William J. Clinton
We can't afford to lose control of our own borders or to take on new financial burdens at a time when we are not adequately providing for the jobs, the health care and the education of our own people. -- William J. Clinton
Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind. -- William J. Clinton
There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past, -- William J. Clinton
[Illegal immigration] costs the taxpayers of the United States a lot of money. And it's unfair to Americans who are working every day to pay their own bills. It's also unfair to a lot of people who have waited in line for years and years in other countries to be legal immigrants. -- William J. Clinton
I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives ... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation. -- William J. Clinton
Every tax cut I call for is targeted, it's responsible and it is paid for within my balanced budget plan. My tax cuts will not undermine our economy. They will speed economic growth. -- William J. Clinton
When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day. -- William J. Clinton
Talk to people about what our real choices are ... Our way works better ... Stick with us, keep talking and think how much better it will be if we keep going forward together. -- William J. Clinton
The most important question of the 21st century is not what or how much, it is 'How?' How do you propose to turn your good ideas into positive changes in other people's lives? You must be the 'how generation.' -- William J. Clinton
India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem. -- William J. Clinton
I have never had sex with that woman, Hillary Clinton. -- William J. Clinton
I have always believed that the decision to have an abortion generally should be between a woman, her doctor, her conscience, and her God. -- William J. Clinton
In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation ... -- William J. Clinton
I am fascinated by this partnership between Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett. It's magic and I love it. -- William J. Clinton
Democracies don't go to war against each other, and by and large they don't sponsor terrorism. They're more likely to respect the environment and human rights and social justice. It's no accident that most of the terrorists come from non-democratic countries. -- William J. Clinton
Rarely have Americans lived through so much change, in so many ways, in so short a time. Quietly, but with gathering force, the ground has shifted beneath our feet as we have moved into an Information Age, a global economy, a truly new world. -- William J. Clinton
Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences. -- William J. Clinton
Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive. -- William J. Clinton
What happened to us in September, 2001, is a microcosmic but painful and powerful example of the fact we live in an inter-dependent world that is not yet an integrated global community. -- William J. Clinton
Since I don't have access to the White House pastry chef anymore, it's done wonders for my figure. -- William J. Clinton
In our efforts to battle terrorism and cyber attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive. We must protect our people from danger and keep America safe and free. -- William J. Clinton
Today what we are doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down those antiquated laws and granting banks significant new authority. -- William J. Clinton
I did have a relationship with Ms Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible. -- William J. Clinton
The great thing about not being president anymore is I can say whatever I want, about anything. Of course [now], nobody really cares what I say. And now I have the worst of all worlds
my wife has become the secretary of state, so no one really cares what I say
unless I mess up. -- William J. Clinton
We know that progress is not inevitable. But neither was victory upon these beaches. Now, as then, the inner voice tells us to stand up and move forward. Now, as then, free people must choose. -- William J. Clinton
We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values. Technology can help cure diseases, but we can prevent a lot of diseases by old-fashioned changes in behavior. -- William J. Clinton
If you want to have a good life you have to have some constructive outlet for your feelings. -- William J. Clinton
Abortion should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare. -- William J. Clinton
First, I worry about climate change. It's the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we know it, and make a lot of the other efforts that we're making irrelevant and impossible. -- William J. Clinton
From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystified me, the press thought the most important issue in the race was the middle class tax cut. I never did meet any voter who thought that. -- William J. Clinton
Life's real victories must be shared. -- William J. Clinton
If you believe in a security strategy - a strategy of more friends and fewer enemies, a strategy of greater cooperation and a strategy of keeping America better at home as we grow more diverse - we have to build the minds and hearts to build this kind of world. -- William J. Clinton
If you look at how many thousands and thousands of pages, Web pages, are being added to the Internet every day, it's the fastest growing organism in human history for communications. -- William J. Clinton
Over time, the more we bring China into the world, the more the world will bring freedom to China. -- William J. Clinton
If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life. -- William J. Clinton
You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you. -- William J. Clinton
I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology. -- William J. Clinton
You don't have to wait till your party's in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world. -- William J. Clinton
Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people. -- William J. Clinton
The most ethical administration in the history of the Republic. -- William J. Clinton
I am opposed to abortion and to government funding of abortions. We should not spend state funds on abortions because so many people believe abortion is wrong. -- William J. Clinton
Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology. -- William J. Clinton
You should strive to find happiness every day and not believe that it comes at the end of the journey. -- William J. Clinton
I challenge every business person in America who has ever complained about the failure of the welfare system to try to hire somebody off welfare. And try hard. -- William J. Clinton
You know, I've always been really interested in this stuff, and I'm going to read this. -- William J. Clinton
We find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well. -- William J. Clinton
She got to go to heaven four days early. -- William J. Clinton
I think if the White House or the President want to say anything about our conversations or anything I tried to do to help our country with their support or at their request, then I think they should be the ones to do that. But I think that former presidents should do that. -- William J. Clinton
We've had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington's second term, when it was obvious that he would be the first and only consensus president. -- William J. Clinton
If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program. -- William J. Clinton
Any president that lies to the American people should have to resign. -- William J. Clinton
If we disagree and I think I'm right, I just go ahead and do what I think is right. And then she tells me, 'I told you so.' -- William J. Clinton
The stimulus is our bridge over troubled waters. And if it's invested well, it'll generate a lot of economic growth, and we'll get quite a bit of the revenues back. -- William J. Clinton
To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit
investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value. -- William J. Clinton
Anyone can want something; it's those who believe in their goals that achieve. -- William J. Clinton
Health care's complicated, can be misrepresented, it's personal, it can spark fear, it's expensive, and the people who have got the money want to keep it. -- William J. Clinton
One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line. -- William J. Clinton
Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the rural areas. -- William J. Clinton
To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization. It's the central reality of our time. -- William J. Clinton
In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever. -- William J. Clinton
I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution. -- William J. Clinton
It is now conceivable that our children's children will know the term cancer only as a constellation of stars. -- William J. Clinton
And I have a plan to do even better, to end welfare as we know it -- William J. Clinton
Unfortunately, we can't control the actions of everyone. -- William J. Clinton
I like the vegetables, the fruits, the beans, the stuff I eat now ... All my blood tests are good, and my vital signs are good, and I feel good, and I also have, believe it or not, more energy. -- William J. Clinton
The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the end, all the world's wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of the human spirit. -- William J. Clinton
The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it! -- William J. Clinton
When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation. -- William J. Clinton
No one can change yesterday, but we can all change tomorrow. -- William J. Clinton
I think what breaks people is not adversity; what breaks people is thinking that tomorrow is going to be just like yesterday. That's what's numbing - if you think you can't change, you can't be better. And I didn't like that. -- William J. Clinton
I mean, when's the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the Senate before he started running? I mean, he will have been a senator longer by the time he's inaugurated, but essentially once you start running for president full time you don't have time to do much else. -- William J. Clinton
We are here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. Without a doubt, this is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by human kind. -- William J. Clinton
We must say no to illegal immigration so we can continue to say yes to legal immigration. -- William J. Clinton
I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism abroad with the loss of the American dream at home. -- William J. Clinton
Edgar Wayburn has worked to preserve the most breath-taking examples of the American landscape. In fact, over the course of more than a half-century, both as President of the Sierra Club and as a private citizen, he has saved more of our wilderness than any person alive. -- William J. Clinton
A preemptive action today, however well-justified, may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future. And because ... I've done this. I've ordered these kinds of actions - I don't care how precise your bombs and your weapons are, when you set them off, innocent people will die. -- William J. Clinton
It is pretty hard to talk about responsibility unless you have exercised it yourself. -- William J. Clinton
One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation. He appointed Republican Secretaries of Defense, the Army and Transportation. He appointed a Vice President who ran against him in 2008. -- William J. Clinton
People will vote for someone who [they perceive] is strong and wrong before they will vote for someone who appears weak but is right. -- William J. Clinton
No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit. -- William J. Clinton
The pressure of the [election] campaign has a wonderful way of revealing your strengths and weaknesses. -- William J. Clinton
It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population. -- William J. Clinton
I want the ability to monitor high-tech communications among far-flung terrorists. I want to be able to have our people learn their plans before they strike. That's the key. -- William J. Clinton
I love and revere the rich and proud history of America. And I am determined to take our best traditions into the future. But with all respect, we do not need to build a bridge to the past. We need to build a bridge to the future. -- William J. Clinton
I think it's crazy for us to play games with our children's future. We know what's happening to the climate, we have a highly predictable set of consequences if we continue to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. -- William J. Clinton
In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average. -- William J. Clinton
The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war. We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War. -- William J. Clinton
The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense. -- William J. Clinton
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. -- William J. Clinton
We must continue to deepen our ties to the Americas and the Caribbean, our common work to educate children, fight drugs, strengthen democracy, and increase trade. -- William J. Clinton
It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden altogether in public schools; however, nothing in the First Amendment converts our public schools into religion-free zones. -- William J. Clinton
Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go. -- William J. Clinton
Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true. -- William J. Clinton
If ever there comes a time when everyone you vote for wins and they do everything you think they should do, there will still be a gap between what is and what ought to be. -- William J. Clinton
It's important that the American people understand that President has proposed and passed this stimulus plan not as the end-all and be-all to our economic woes but as our bridge over troubled water until we get the finance system, the banking system working again. -- William J. Clinton
Sincerity? I can fake that. -- William J. Clinton
41, you look great. Love what you're doing. -- William J. Clinton
In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military. -- William J. Clinton
I am committed to curbing the influence of money in our political system. -- William J. Clinton
The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart. -- William J. Clinton
Citizenship in the 21st century requires more than paying your taxes and voting and occasionally running for office. That even if you're never in political office, you have political responsibilities. You can make your society stronger and better. -- William J. Clinton
You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say. -- William J. Clinton
What you earn depends on what you learn. -- William J. Clinton
Islam is one of the fastest-growing faiths within America, and America needs to show that we're not anti-Islam. We are for, for people being free and having opportunity everywhere, that ... We did that in Bosnia, we did that in Kosovo, we did that in numerous other places in the world. -- William J. Clinton
The great thing about this game is that the bad days are wonderful. -- William J. Clinton
I will never let Israel down ... -- William J. Clinton
I'm sorry, could you please tell me what the definition of the word "is" is? -- William J. Clinton
Palestinians are a hard-working and an incredible community. They have done remarkably well outside their country. I have never met a poor Palestinian in the United States; every Palestinian I know is a college professor or a doctor. -- William J. Clinton
Let me be clear: we are still a nation of immigrants, and we honor all those immigrants who are working hard to become new citizens. -- William J. Clinton
Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a relentless, questioning, hopeful people. -- William J. Clinton
Keep your eyes on the prize and don't turn back. -- William J. Clinton
Music can give you your dreams. It will teach you hard work, it will break your heart and make you so happy, you can't stand it ... I don't think I'd have been president if it hadn't been for music. -- William J. Clinton
[Alternative energy] will make us less dependent on foreign oil. It would make us more secure in our future. It would mean that our foreign policy could be a reflection of our values and our other interests, and not just that. -- William J. Clinton
Technology really has turned out to be a wonderful thing ... So Americans really are tuning in in positive ways on the Internet. -- William J. Clinton
I don't like to use the word sacrifice. -- William J. Clinton
We still have too many Americans who give in to their fears of those who are different from them. Not so long ago, swastikas were painted on the doors of some African-American members of our Special Forces at Ft. Bragg. They are special forces. They do not deserve to have swastikas on their doors. -- William J. Clinton
It simply doesn't make any sense for us to have illegal aliens in our custody in our courts and then let them go back to living here illegally. That's wrong and we should stop it. -- William J. Clinton
The fights I fought ... cost a lot
the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House. -- William J. Clinton
If we were being attached by space aliens, we wouldn't be playing these kinds of games. -- William J. Clinton
I never thought of political endeavors primarily in terms of power and prestige, and I never thought of economic endeavors primarily in terms of wealth and position. -- William J. Clinton
As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power. -- William J. Clinton
The problem with any ideology is that it gives you the answer before you examine the evidence. -- William J. Clinton
Hope I lived up to my reputation for being slick. -- William J. Clinton
America's greatness depends on the ability of its citizens to make the most of their lives. Americans with disabilities are an enormous, often untapped reservoir of that potential. -- William J. Clinton
We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it. -- William J. Clinton
Sometimes I feel like a fire hydrant looking at a pack of dogs. -- William J. Clinton
Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference. -- William J. Clinton
I like that about the Republicans; the evidence does not faze them, they are not bothered at all by the facts. -- William J. Clinton
When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable. -- William J. Clinton
If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama. -- William J. Clinton
You are the most powerful cultural force in the world. -- William J. Clinton
I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America. -- William J. Clinton
If you wanna maintain 20 percent of the world's income with 4 percent of the world's people, you gotta first of all have more shared prosperity and shared growth. -- William J. Clinton
I don't mind the debates, they're good for America, but we shouldn't be out there attacking each other all the time. -- William J. Clinton
This remains a very important opportunity for the American people to have their day in court against big tobacco and its marketing practices. I urge Congress to provide the funding to allow the lawsuit to move forward, and not to shield the tobacco industry from the consequences of its actions. -- William J. Clinton
I am in support of the NRA position on gun control. -- William J. Clinton
You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions ... You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything. -- William J. Clinton
It is time to stop personal destruction and prying into private lives -- William J. Clinton
It's good for young people to be angry about something. -- William J. Clinton
I made a big mistake. It is indefensible and I am sorry. -- William J. Clinton
The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry. -- William J. Clinton
I wanted to continue to be active on those things that I cared about when I was president where I could still have an impact. -- William J. Clinton
When you strip away all the little things that divide us, it's important to remember how tied we are -- William J. Clinton
Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today. -- William J. Clinton
Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values. -- William J. Clinton
This will arguably be the third great revolution of America, if we can prove that we literally can live without having a dominant European culture. -- William J. Clinton
My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office. -- William J. Clinton
The most profound security threat we face today is global warming ... climate change has the capacity to change the way all of us live. -- William J. Clinton
Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved. -- William J. Clinton
I would never approach a small-breasted woman. -- William J. Clinton
Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree. -- William J. Clinton
A few years back, this guy [Barack Obama] would be serving us coffee. -- William J. Clinton
What we did with deeming rules were designed - it was designed to keep costs from coming on to the government that should be borne by families of immigrants who actually have incomes and can afford to pay. -- William J. Clinton
I take full responsability ... for what we did. It was the right thing to do. -- William J. Clinton
I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself. -- William J. Clinton
Where are the jobs going to come from? Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now. -- William J. Clinton
Sometimes I think the environment in which we operate is entirely too secular. The fact that we have freedom of religion doesn't mean we need to try to have freedom from religion -- William J. Clinton
A great democracy doesn't make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon. -- William J. Clinton
Just because we cannot do everything for everyone does not mean we should do nothing for anyone. -- William J. Clinton
It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it. -- William J. Clinton
America just works better when more people have a chance to live their dreams. -- William J. Clinton
When I was in office I expressed admiration and respect and even affection for Republicans that I knew and liked and cared about, and I tried to find ways to work with them. I think the Democrats should do that, and just keep trying to lower the temperature. -- William J. Clinton
I'm someone who had a deep emotional attachment to 'Starsky and Hutch.' -- William J. Clinton
I've been in politics long enough to expect criticism and hostility. But I was unprepared for the hatred I get from Christians. Why do Christians hate so much?. -- William J. Clinton
By the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. -- William J. Clinton
Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action. -- William J. Clinton
I believe that people of my income group should pay more, and I explained why, but that won't necessarily lift overall wage levels. -- William J. Clinton
I think we need to push harder, we the Democrats, because it's an open door for the Republicans - prosperity centers. -- William J. Clinton
If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed. -- William J. Clinton
Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest. -- William J. Clinton
Our Nation owes a lasting debt of gratitude to all those selfless members of our Armed Forces who have risked their own freedom and safety to defend the the lives and liberty of others. -- William J. Clinton
Millions of people of color still experience racism daily. -- William J. Clinton
No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again -- William J. Clinton
I was also very concerned about protecting my family -- William J. Clinton
A parent may be without a job, but no child should be without a doctor. -- William J. Clinton
In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology. -- William J. Clinton
Poverty, discrimination, and ignorance restrict growth. -- William J. Clinton
Only a fool does not look to explain his mistakes. -- William J. Clinton
All of us have to do a better job of teaching young people not to let themselves be defined by the words other people use against them. -- William J. Clinton
Americans - not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George - we've always been of two minds about the government, which is why the framers wrote the Constitution the way they did. -- William J. Clinton
I think the idea of moving to a cleaner energy future and doing more energy efficiency makes smart sense. -- William J. Clinton
Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little. -- William J. Clinton
I love the HRC. The initials are great. -- William J. Clinton
We have a chance here to prove that [Rwanda], a country that almost slaughtered itself out of existence, can practice reconciliation, reorganize itself, focus on tomorrow and provide comprehensive, quality health care with minimal outside help. -- William J. Clinton
We are moving people from welfare to work. On welfare, we launch a quiet revolution. -- William J. Clinton
There's this whole problem of trafficking, which has gotten worse in the economic downturn, which disproportionately affects young women, but also affects some young men who are sold into bondage, into basically servitude for indebted work that they can often never escape from. -- William J. Clinton
Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow. -- William J. Clinton
The economy has produced 6.1 million jobs since I became president, and if Michael Jordan comes back to the Bulls, it will be 6,100,001 jobs. -- William J. Clinton
In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything. -- William J. Clinton
If you come from a wealthy country with open borders, unless you seriously believe you can kill, imprison or occupy all your enemies, you have to make a world with more friends and fewer enemies - with more partners and fewer terrorists. -- William J. Clinton
Together, people with good hearts and fine minds can move the world. -- William J. Clinton
That's what she [Hillary Clinton] is done with everything all her life. She just makes something good happen, and that's what you need. -- William J. Clinton
My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism. -- William J. Clinton
We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner of a truly unifying national effort. We can start right now. -- William J. Clinton
When you get asked hundreds of questions, it's not possible to remember the answer to every one. -- William J. Clinton
In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago -- William J. Clinton
Mike Adams' assertion that I grabbed Chelsea's (backside) is both false and defamatory. I think we can all agree that Chelsea is not nearly as hot as Ms. Lewinski. The charges simply lack any indicia of credibility. I demand an apology. And I also demand a cigar. -- William J. Clinton
Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy. -- William J. Clinton
If you take advantage of the fact that technology abolishes distance, then you won't need to go to India. Just go to Indiana. -- William J. Clinton
The most powerful people on earth are focus groups. -- William J. Clinton
We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons. -- William J. Clinton
I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever. -- William J. Clinton
President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. Listen to me now. No president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years. -- William J. Clinton
On Bill Clinton: I have a simple question: Who's the last President to give you a balanced budget? -- William J. Clinton
I will tell you this: I will not raise taxes on the middle-class to pay for these programs. -- William J. Clinton
African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do. -- William J. Clinton
Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music and arts programs. They increase the ability of young people to do math. They increase the ability of young people to read. And most important of all, they're a lot of fun. -- William J. Clinton
$100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. We believe it's long past time to clean up Washington. -- William J. Clinton
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving. -- William J. Clinton
Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening. -- William J. Clinton
You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity. -- William J. Clinton
When I was a younger man and had a life, I owned an El Camino pickup in the '70s. It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had Astroturf in the back. -- William J. Clinton
So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks. -- William J. Clinton
Cooperation will save the future. And America should lead it. Every time humanity has been in danger of extinguishing itself, our consciousness and our conscience have led us to come together. That's the big issue of the 21st century. -- William J. Clinton
I still believe in a place called Hope. -- William J. Clinton
The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which highlights customer satisfaction, workforce empowerment, and increased productivity, has come to symbolize America's commitment to excellence. -- William J. Clinton
Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off: it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature - like wind or water. -- William J. Clinton
Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it. -- William J. Clinton
America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits. -- William J. Clinton
We have the most religious freedom of any country in the world, including the freedom not to believe. -- William J. Clinton
We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block. -- William J. Clinton
We have to change the whole job structure of America. We have got to basically reorient our economy toward the future. -- William J. Clinton
The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all. -- William J. Clinton
All of us in our administration worked hard to support families in raising their children and succeeding at work. -- William J. Clinton
Do you think I'd be stupid enough to go running with someone I was foolin' with? -- William J. Clinton
It might suprise you to know I think I raised them too much, too -- William J. Clinton
We should make it a crime even to attempt to pollute. Our children should grow up next to parks, not poison. -- William J. Clinton
We will reduce the White House staff by 25 percent -- William J. Clinton
We set forth on a journey to bring our vision to our country, to keep the American dream alive for all who are willing to work for it, to make our American community stronger, to keep America the world's strongest force for peace and freedom and prosperity. -- William J. Clinton
Character is a journey, not a destination. -- William J. Clinton
We don't need a constitutional amendment for kids to pray. -- William J. Clinton
What we should be doing [in US] is accelerating every year our efforts to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, have a cleaner energy future, have much more energy conservation. And this won't hurt anybody. This will create a new economy for America, if we've got the discipline to do it. -- William J. Clinton
I tried marijuana once or twice in England, but didn't like it. I didn't inhale. -- William J. Clinton
I think actually that the speech work I do is fine. It's important, because I try to help people think about what's going on and organize their lives accordingly. -- William J. Clinton
You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president. -- William J. Clinton
We're not talking about a few rooms here with delicate personal matters involved. -- William J. Clinton
I've gained first hand knowledge of the challenges faced by people with disabilities. It's made me understand that those of us who have full use of our physical faculties owe an enormous amount of respect and sensitivity to people who don't. -- William J. Clinton
You can't say you love your country and hate your government. -- William J. Clinton
We are on the right track to the 21st century. We are on the right track, but our work is not finished. What should we do? First, let us consider how to proceed. I say the question is no longer, "Who's to blame?" but "What to do?" -- William J. Clinton
Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We, the American people, we are the solution. -- William J. Clinton
Hillary will make us stronger together. You know it because she's spent a lifetime doing it. -- William J. Clinton
I do think that the role of the Internet, and the way it's bringing everything into the home, has made a parent's job much more difficult. And it's harder to know what to do and how to do it. It's much, much harder. -- William J. Clinton
True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it. -- William J. Clinton
I'm sure I spent more time in Texas than anybody else who had run for President recently. -- William J. Clinton
It is inconceivable that anyone could say we have tried to hide anything -- William J. Clinton
The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done. -- William J. Clinton
When, President Bush asks me to go with his father to the Tsunami impacted areas and help raise money, I was thrilled to do that, because I think we have to always keep looking for common ground. -- William J. Clinton
If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people he should resign. -- William J. Clinton
Marijuana is ten times more dangerous than twenty years ago. -- William J. Clinton
When I became president with a commitment to reform health care, Hillary was a natural to head the health care task force. You all know we failed because we couldn't break a Senate filibuster. Hillary immediately went to work on solving the problems the bill sought to address one by one. -- William J. Clinton
The American people have now spoken, but it's going to take a little while to determine what they've said. -- William J. Clinton
I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow. -- William J. Clinton
No one who has lived through the second half of the 20th century could possibly be blind to the enormous impact of exchange programs on the future of countries ... -- William J. Clinton
Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless. -- William J. Clinton
I don't know in my long life that I ever worked with anybody that has quite the combination of policy knowledge and concern, political skills, of a personal touch with people, and a sense of innate fairness that inspires confidence. -- William J. Clinton
I mean my life was a combination of fascination with other people, with politics, and with policy, and the impact of government decisions on people's lives and the life of our nation and the life of the world. -- William J. Clinton
I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I'll pay more, but it won't solve the problem. -- William J. Clinton
The era of big government is over. -- William J. Clinton
Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back. -- William J. Clinton
If you want to be forgiven, you have to extend forgiveness, even to people who aren't smart enough to ask for it. -- William J. Clinton
I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on. -- William J. Clinton
I might not have been President if it hadn't been for school music. Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music programs. -- William J. Clinton
The Bible is the authoritative Word of God and contains all truth. -- William J. Clinton
I am trying to be honest with you and it hurts me. Now ... -- William J. Clinton
Our bridge to the future must include bridges to other nations, because we remain the world's indispensable nation to advance prosperity, peace and freedom and to keep our own children safe from the dangers of terror and weapons of mass destruction. -- William J. Clinton
American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted. -- William J. Clinton
I have never had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. I've never had an affair with her. -- William J. Clinton
It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is. -- William J. Clinton
The fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience. -- William J. Clinton
We should scrub all of our federal regulations to find responsible ways to make life easier to small businesses, i want to be a small business president. -- William J. Clinton
When we put aside partisanship, embrace the best ideas regardless of where they come from and work for principled compromise, we can move America not left or right, but forward. -- William J. Clinton
The first thing you ought to do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging ... Instead they are looking for a bigger shovel. -- William J. Clinton
Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American. -- William J. Clinton
We're going to build the bridge to the 21st century, we have to make our children free - free of the vise grip of guns and gangs and drugs; free to build lives of hope. -- William J. Clinton
I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. -- William J. Clinton
By lifting the weakest, poorest among us, we lift the rest of us as well. -- William J. Clinton
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'. -- William J. Clinton
I misled people, including even my wife -- William J. Clinton
Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted. -- William J. Clinton
The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow. -- William J. Clinton
Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education. -- William J. Clinton
More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves. -- William J. Clinton
I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in some places, and should be. We really need a re-examination of our entire policy on imprisonment ... Our imprisonment policies are counterproductive. -- William J. Clinton
That is, we're into a whole new world with the Internet, and whenever we sort of cross another plateau in our development, there are those who seek to take advantage of it. So this is a replay of things that have happened throughout our history. -- William J. Clinton
I issued a number of denials to people I thought needed to hear them -- William J. Clinton
We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in the clash of controversy, we don't see our own time for what it truly is - a new dawn for America. -- William J. Clinton
The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people. -- William J. Clinton
There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children. -- William J. Clinton
Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug. -- William J. Clinton
The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime. -- William J. Clinton
Elvis Presley was the first and the best. He is my favorite of all time. -- William J. Clinton
A few years ago, (Barack Obama) would have been getting us coffee. -- William J. Clinton
We live to prove that cooperation works better than conflict. -- William J. Clinton
I hate it when people blame someone else and don't take responsibility. -- William J. Clinton
The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change. -- William J. Clinton
Everybody knows that I have tougher ethics rules than any other previous President. -- William J. Clinton
You live in the age of interdependence. Borders don't count for much or stop much, good or bad, anymore. -- William J. Clinton
When I leave the office on January 20th, I will leave even more idealistic than I was the day I took the oath of office. -- William J. Clinton
President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship. -- William J. Clinton
It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt. -- William J. Clinton
I might not be the same, but that's not important/No freedom till we're equal, damn right I support it -- William J. Clinton
Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent. -- William J. Clinton
We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons. -- William J. Clinton
The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice. -- William J. Clinton
Simply put, no society can truly flourish if it stifles the dreams and productivity of half its population. Happily, I see evidence all over the world that women are gaining social and economic power that they never had before. This is good news ... -- William J. Clinton
A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military. -- William J. Clinton
Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds. -- William J. Clinton
The country is groaning and moaning and screaming for change. -- William J. Clinton
Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system. -- William J. Clinton
Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls. -- William J. Clinton
Americans long to be united. After 9/11, we all just wanted to be one nation. Not a single American on September the 12, 2001, cared who won the next presidential election. -- William J. Clinton
Hillary had never run for office before, but she decided to give it a try. She began her campaign the way she always does new things, by listening and and learning. And after a tough battle, New York elected her to the seat once held by another outsider, Robert Kennedy. -- William J. Clinton
I want a man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama -- William J. Clinton
I have no intention of raising taxes -- William J. Clinton
That everybody can do something, without regard to how old or young they are, rich or poor or middle class they are, how busy or not busy they are and what level skills they have. Everyone can do something. And everybody should do something ... And if you do it, you'll be happier. -- William J. Clinton
I always get nervous when people start talking about legacies. -- William J. Clinton
Climate change is more remote than terror but a more profound threat to the future of the children and the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren I hope all of you have. -- William J. Clinton
But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values. -- William J. Clinton
Nearly everyone will lie to you given the right circumstances. -- William J. Clinton
The United States is too big and we are too involved with too many people for any president to be able to take actions that will be universally agreed to all day, every day and everywhere in the world. -- William J. Clinton
[My mom] had this amazing attitude in the face of everything, including when she got cancer. -- William J. Clinton
These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does life's meaning also require negative comparison to others? -- William J. Clinton
AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease. -- William J. Clinton
I can spend your money better than you can. -- William J. Clinton
Every American should have above average income, and my Administration is going to see they get it. -- William J. Clinton
People like change in general, but not in particular. -- William J. Clinton
Terrorists are as big a threat to our future, perhaps bigger, than organized crime. -- William J. Clinton
Somehow we all end up paying for what we do. -- William J. Clinton
Presidents are not permitted to have personal feelings. -- William J. Clinton
Even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got. -- William J. Clinton
NASA even sent Chuck Berry's music on a space probe searching for intelligent life in outer space. Well, now, if they're out there, they're duck walking -- William J. Clinton
We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future. -- William J. Clinton
Constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely responsable -- William J. Clinton
It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival. -- William J. Clinton
I believe that this country's policies should be heavily biased in favor of nondiscrimination. -- William J. Clinton
When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right. -- William J. Clinton
Four years ago nobody but nuclear physicists had ever heard of the Internet. Today even my cat, Socks, has his own web page. I'm amazed at that. I meet kids all the time, been talking to my cat on the Internet. -- William J. Clinton
Only the police should have handguns. -- William J. Clinton
There is a government within the government who controll this and i do not controll it -- William J. Clinton
Today's possibilities are not tomorrows guarantees. -- William J. Clinton
The risk is that as we come out of this recession, we'll have so much debt to finance, we'll either have to have inflation or very high interest rates to continue to borrow the money, or both. That's a risk. -- William J. Clinton
Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together. -- William J. Clinton
We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership -- William J. Clinton
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth. -- William J. Clinton
I regret to say that my hand did, in fact, have an improper relationship with Chelsea Clinton. The incident represents a profound lapse of judgment for which my hand takes sole responsibility. -- William J. Clinton
In general I saw my job as the first president whose full term would be served after the Cold War in a global information society where we were interdependent but not integrated. And therefore, we were vulnerable to the worst, and able to seize the best, of what's going on in the world. -- William J. Clinton
Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege. -- William J. Clinton
I have never seen ... so slippery, so disgusting a candidate. -- William J. Clinton
Sometimes there is a difference in what is legal and what ought to be done. -- William J. Clinton
[Hillary Clinton] isinsatiably curious, she's a natural leader, she's a good organiser, and she's the best darn change maker I ever met in my entire life. This is a really important point for you to take out of this convention. -- William J. Clinton
You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being and that of your family and your country. -- William J. Clinton
What we believe in is what works. -- William J. Clinton
If you are focusing your anger at government, you are focusing your anger at all of us. Government is just a personification of this country. -- William J. Clinton
I don't think I would have become President if it were not for my school music program. -- William J. Clinton
Just try to imagine what it would be like to be 300 million years old. -- William J. Clinton
Won't it be sad to have an Internet connection to Mars if there are no Martians to write to or e-mail us? -- William J. Clinton
The established order has too many self-protecting economic entities, and not enough people who yet understand what it takes to change. -- William J. Clinton
It is a $270 billion cut in medicare -- William J. Clinton
There's never a perfect bipartisan bill in the eyes of a partisan. -- William J. Clinton
We want to live forever, and we're getting there. -- William J. Clinton
History will remember Nelson Mandela as a
champion for human dignity and freedom, for
peace and reconciliation -- William J. Clinton
Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country. -- William J. Clinton
Downsizing budgets may be necessary, but downsizing dreams is a decision to be disappointed. -- William J. Clinton
Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all. -- William J. Clinton
Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement. -- William J. Clinton
The Republicans could mess up a two car parade -- William J. Clinton
We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love. -- William J. Clinton
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. -- William J. Clinton
When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill. -- William J. Clinton
When you're president, the Democrats got to feel good when they walk in the door if you're a Republican; if you're a Democrat, the Republican has to feel like you're listening. And you should be listening. -- William J. Clinton
I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation. -- William J. Clinton
I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale. -- William J. Clinton
Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats. -- William J. Clinton
Almost makes you want to go to jail out here, doesn't it? -- William J. Clinton
You can't blame the administration and the Republicans for taking us back to deficits, for spending the Social Security surplus and assaulting the environment. That's what they promised to do in the last election. -- William J. Clinton
We have a moral obligation to make sure the people who are being required to work have the opportunity to work. We must make sure the jobs are there. -- William J. Clinton
Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills. -- William J. Clinton
That all depends on what "is" is. -- William J. Clinton
Don't you ever forget that in the end, our future is tied to people. -- William J. Clinton
No generation has had the opportunity, as we now have, to build a global economy that leaves no-one behind. It is a wonderful opportunity, but also a profound responsibility. -- William J. Clinton
Ultimately, the best strategy to ensure our security and to build a durable peace is to support the advance of democracy elsewhere. Democracies don't attack each other. -- William J. Clinton
I don't think the Republicans can damage my character -- William J. Clinton
When we give what we can, and give it with joy, we don't just renew the American tradition of giving, we also renew ourselves. -- William J. Clinton
We passed welfare reform. All of you know I believe we were right to do it. -- William J. Clinton
We all have to learn to live together. -- William J. Clinton
They are cutting medicare -- William J. Clinton
Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life. -- William J. Clinton
I have said many times-if I hadn't been exposed to music as a child I don't think I would have been president. -- William J. Clinton
We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans ... -- William J. Clinton
I'm just trying to suppress my natural impulses and get back to work. -- William J. Clinton
People ought to be going over this, finding things they don't like. Congress has clearly proved they can act in a hurry. If there's something wrong with it, it can be amended. If something needs to be kicked in, it can be put in. If something needs to be taken out, it can be taken out. -- William J. Clinton
My fellow Americans, we can only build our bridge to the 21st century if we build it together, and if we're willing to walk arm-in-arm across that bridge together. -- William J. Clinton
The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves. -- William J. Clinton
I will get things done for America ... Faced with apathy, I will take action. Faced with conflict, I will seek common ground ... Faced with adversity, I will persevere. I will carry this commitment with me this year. I am an Americorps volunteer. -- William J. Clinton
For four years we've been cooperating exhaustively -- William J. Clinton
You cannot have an integrated world and have your say all the time. America can lead the world towards that, but we cannot dominate and run the world in that direction. There is a big difference. -- William J. Clinton
The purpose of politics is to give people tools to make the most of their lives. -- William J. Clinton
The struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation's character. -- William J. Clinton
Let's adopt some short-term strategies to get growth going and then let's have a long-term debt reduction package. That's what I think we should do and I think it will work. -- William J. Clinton
When people think, Democrats win. -- William J. Clinton
NAFTA means jobs. American jobs, and good paying American jobs. If I
didn't believe that, I wouldn't support this agreement. -- William J. Clinton
Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office? -- William J. Clinton
He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can't let go of the hatred of their enemies they risk sowing the seeds of hate among themselves. -- William J. Clinton
I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most ... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it. -- William J. Clinton
You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle. -- William J. Clinton
I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system. -- William J. Clinton
Our campaign is the opposite of 'competence.' -- William J. Clinton
If you look back at the 1960's in the United States, and if you think that more good was done than harm, you are probably a Democrat. If you think that more harm was done than good, then you're probably a Republican. -- William J. Clinton
I experimented with marijuana a time or two. -- William J. Clinton
Just because you can't do everything, it doesn't mean you shouldn't do what you can. -- William J. Clinton
I hate that man Obama more than any man I've ever met, more than any man who ever lived, -- William J. Clinton
If no one consumes these products, people will stop producing them. They will not build it if you don't come. -- William J. Clinton
Progress changes consciousness, and when people's consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well - a virtuous circle. -- William J. Clinton
It's the economy, stupid. -- William J. Clinton
The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation. -- William J. Clinton