William J. Clinton Quotes

You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.

Do you think I'd be stupid enough to go running with someone I was foolin' with?

I don't think the Republicans can damage my character

They are cutting medicare

Sure enough at Oxford, I was another Yank half a step behind.

I have never seen . . . so slippery, so disgusting a candidate.

I want to nominate a man who's cool on the outside, but who burns for America on the inside.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If 'is' means 'is and never has been' that's one thing - if it means 'there is none', that was a completely true statement.

41, you look great. Love what you're doing.

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.

When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.

America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits.

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.

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.

We have to change the whole job structure of America. We have got to basically reorient our economy toward the future.

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

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.

I'm proud to say that there is not a single Russian nuclear missile pointed at an American child.

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.

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.

Our country [America] is still the strongest force for peace and freedom on earth.

But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.

. . . unfortunately, we can't control the actions of everyone.

The pressure of the [election] campaign has a wonderful way of revealing your strengths and weaknesses.

It is pretty hard to talk about responsibility unless you have exercised it yourself.

We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons.

Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.

The American people have now spoken, but it's going to take a little while to determine what they've said.

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.

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

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.

If you want to be forgiven, you have to extend forgiveness, even to people who aren't smart enough to ask for it.

We all have to learn to live together.

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.

I'm sure I spent more time in Texas than anybody else who had run for President recently.

There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past.

Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.

It is a $270 billion cut in medicare

I will tell you this: I will not raise taxes on the middle-class to pay for these programs.

I take full responsability...for what we did. It was the right thing to do.

I pledge that I have no intention of raising taxes in my second term.

And I have a plan to do even better, to end welfare as we know it

I am committed to curbing the influence of money in our political system.

I hate that man Obama more than any man I've ever met, more than any man who ever lived.

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.

Everybody knows that I have tougher ethics rules than any previous President.

If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people, he should resign.

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.

I issued a number of denials to people I thought needed to hear them

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.