William J. Clinton Quotes

I always get nervous when people start talking about legacies.

Taxing less and spending more.. it's fun in the short run, but it's a recipe for disaster.

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

Nobody is right all the time and even a broken clock is right twice a day.

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.

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.

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.

Over time, the more we bring China into the world, the more the world will bring freedom to China.

The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.

The purpose of politics is to give people tools to make the most of their lives.

Without a high pain threshold, you can't be a successful President.

What are the needs of the world? What can I do that won't be done if I don't do it?

Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We - the American people - we are the solution.

Life's real victories must be shared.

By the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions.

Terrorists are as big a threat to our future, perhaps bigger, than organized crime.

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.

I believe that people of my income group should pay more, and I explained why, but that won't necessarily lift overall wage levels.

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.

Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our Nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow Americans, this is our time. Let us embrace it.

Technology really has turned out to be a wonderful thing. . . . So Americans really are tuning in in positive ways on the Internet.

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.

My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.

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.

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which highlights customer satisfaction, workforce empowerment, and increased productivity, has come to symbolize America's commitment to excellence.

The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all.

The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military.

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.

In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.

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.

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.

In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago

[George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.

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.

I am fascinated by this partnership between Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett. It's magic and I love it.

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.

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.

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.

And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.

Nearly everyone will lie to you, given the right circumstances.

It's the economy, stupid.

I was also very concerned about protecting my family.

Most of the major mistakes I made in my life, I made when I was too tired to know what I was doing - both personally and professionally.

Sincerity? I can fake that.

It is time to stop personal destruction and prying into private lives

Politics is for people who are too ugly to get into showbusiness.

Anyone can want something; it's those who believe in their goals that achieve.

I have always believed that the decision to have an abortion generally should be between a woman, her doctor, her conscience, and her God.

Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.

The country is groaning and moaning and screaming for change.