William J. Clinton Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I would never approach a small-breasted woman.

Elvis Presley was the first and the best. He is my favorite of all time.

Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action.

By lifting the weakest, poorest among us, we lift the rest of us as well.

You know, I've always been really interested in this stuff, and I'm going to read this.

Well, I don't have much job security.

Somehow we all end up paying for what we do.

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.

People like change in general, but not in particular.

What's a man got to do to get in the top fifty?

I'm someone who had a deep emotional attachment to 'Starsky and Hutch.'

Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls.

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.

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.

I don't mind the debates, they're good for America, but we shouldn't be out there attacking each other all the time.

The worst thing about not being president anymore is I was disoriented for three weeks because nobody every played a song when I walked in.

When you're president, you have more power to help more people, but you also are the prisoner of circumstances as well, and countervailing political forces more.

My major political identity has been as her spouse for the last decade and I like it that way.

No we can't cast ourselves as liberals.

The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.

I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that ends the permanent underclass, that lifts up the poor and ends their isolation, their exile, and they are not forgotten anymore.

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.

Millions of people of color still experience racism daily.

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.

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.

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.

I think we need to push harder, we the Democrats, because it's an open door for the Republicans - prosperity centers.

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.

We are moving people from welfare to work. On welfare, we launch a quiet revolution.

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.

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.

If you take advantage of the fact that technology abolishes distance, then you won't need to go to India. Just go to Indiana.

President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself.

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.

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.

There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government.

You don't have to be an elected official to be a public servant.

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.

All of us in our administration worked hard to support families in raising their children and succeeding at work.

I think the idea of moving to a cleaner energy future and doing more energy efficiency makes smart sense.

A parent may be without a job, but no child should be without a doctor.

Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the rural areas.

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.

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.

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.