81 Bill Clinton Quotes

It depends on how you define alone
The best social program is a good job
Well, I don't have much job security
You'd think he was running for First Lady
Character is a journey, not a destination
I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale
I can spend your money better than you can
What's a man got to do to get in the top fifty?
I am in support of the NRA position on gun control
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel
Sometimes I feel like a fire hydrant looking at a pack of dogs
You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle
You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president
Abortion should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare
I still believe in a place called Hope, a place called America
When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old
It wasn't my finest hour. It wasn't even my finest hour and a half
A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military
America just works better when more people have a chance to live their dreams
I may not have been the greatest president, but I've had the most fun eight years
In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything
Look, half the time when I see the evening news, I wouldn't be for me, either
Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all
Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure
Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?
The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation
The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change
The road to tyranny, we must remember, begins with the destruction of the truth
There is nothing wrong in America that can't be fixed with what is right in America
We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs
We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership
If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person
Last year, the vice president launched a new effort to help make communities more liberal
Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America
There were a lot of times when we were alone, but I never really thought we were
When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable
You can’t blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity
You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That's a good-looking mummy
Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening
I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system
It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had AstroTurf in the back. You don't want to know why, but I did
It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit
Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country
Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that
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
There are always going to be people who want to be president, and some days I'd like to give it to them
You don’t have to wait till your party’s in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world
I asked him to do it because he was the only person that I could trust to read all 150,000 pages in the Code of Federal Regulations
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
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
There's just no such thing as truth when it comes to him. He just says whatever sounds good and worries about it after the election
When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it. I didn't inhale and never tried it again
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
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
George Bush has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better
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
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
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
Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills
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
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
I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life
I think the country could be spared a lot of agony and the government could worry about inflation and a lot of other problems if Nixon would go on and resign
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
Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy
Affirmative action is an effort to develop a systematic approach to open the doors of education, employment and business development opportunities to qualified individuals
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
The most important family policy, urban policy, labor policy, minority policy, and foreign policy America can have is an expanding entrepreneurial economy of high-wage, high-skilled jobs
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
We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream will continue to wither. Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American
Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. Creating a child through this new method calls into question our most fundamental beliefs. It has the potential to threaten the sacred family bonds at the very core of our ideals and our society. At its worst, it could lead to misguided and malevolent attempts to select certain traits, even to create certain kind of children, to make our children objects rather than cherished individuals
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
I mean, you know, this idea that somebody we disagree with on economic or social policy or something we have to turn into some kind of ogre or demon, I think, is a mistake. I mean, it's like telling the American people or half the American people that don't agree with you they're all fools. That's just not true
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
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
People really don’t care if politicians attack each other with untrue stories. They figure if you don’t want to get hurt, you shouldn’t have filed for office. They figure whatever happens to us, our lives will be better than theirs
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
The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists
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
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