William J. Clinton Quotes

America just works better when more people have a chance to live their dreams.

A man is more than the sum of all the things he can do.

It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.

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.

We need to help younger people recognize their own capacity to do good, and help them discover the rewards of generosity.

If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.

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.

...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.

[It] has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from immigrants.

If there's grass in the field, play ball!

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.

Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a relentless, questioning, hopeful people.

We all do better when we work together.

Just because we cannot do everything for everyone does not mean we should do nothing for anyone.

Poverty, discrimination, and ignorance restrict growth.

We simply cannot afford to give the reigns of government so someone who will double down on trickle down

The future belongs to those who are creative collaborators

True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.

Education is not a privilege, it is a right!

Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity.

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.

When people think, Democrats win.

When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill.

Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.

I will never let Israel down.

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.

Our campaign is the opposite of 'competence.'

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.

What we believe in is what works.

When you strip away all the little things that divide us, it's important to remember how tied we are

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.

We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block.

The struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation's character.

It's good for young people to be angry about something.

Downsizing budgets may be necessary, but downsizing dreams is a decision to be disappointed.

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.

There's never a perfect bipartisan bill in the eyes of a partisan.

You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity.

Don't you ever orget that in the end, our future is tied to people, that it's more about ideas than a tax.

The great thing about this game is that the bad days are wonderful.

People will vote for someone who [they perceive] is strong and wrong before they will vote for someone who appears weak but is right.

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.

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.

It is now conceivable that our children's children will know the term cancer only as a constellation of stars.

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.

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.

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.

I love the HRC. The initials are great.

I want a man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama.

I don't think I would have become President if it were not for my school music program.