William J. Clinton Quotes

We're all in this together is a far better philosophy than you're on your own.

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.

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

We're [Clinton Foundation] trying to get rapid tests that give you results when you're right there on site at an affordable price. Ninety percent of the HIV-positive people in the world don't know they have the infection. An enormous amount of infections are being perpetrated by people who don't know they themselves are HIV positive.

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

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

The risk is that as we come out of this recession, we'll have so much debt to finance, we'll either have to have inflation or very high interest rates to continue to borrow the money, or both. That's a risk.

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics. Why? Because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth. We know that investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase growth. They increase good jobs, and they create new wealth for all of us.

Citizenship in the 21st century requires more than paying your taxes and voting and occasionally running for office. That even if you're never in political office, you have political responsibilities. You can make your society stronger and better.

The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

If you look at what's happened to the stock market, if you look at what's happened to housing values, if you look at what's happened to bank loan portfolios because the value of their other assets that they've already issued loans against were going down, there was a pretty good argument for trying to pass something at about this level of investment with the divisions as they were - unemployment, food stamps, and tax cuts, aid to education and healthcare, and job creation.

At the same time, old confrontations have taken on frightening urgency, especially the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir and the violent stalemate in the Middle East. Progress on these and other global challenges requires us to develop a larger strategy for American foreign policy, rooted in a fundamental commitment to move the world from interdependence to an integrated global community committed to peace and prosperity, freedom and security.

The problem with ideology is if you got an ideology, you already got your mind made up, you know all the answers, and that makes evidence irrelevant and argument a waste of time, so you tend to govern by assertion and attack. The problem with that is that discourages thinking and gives you bad results.

Palestinians are a hard-working and an incredible community. They have done remarkably well outside their country. I have never met a poor Palestinian in the United States; every Palestinian I know is a college professor or a doctor.

I ask you to join in a re-United States. We need to empower our people so they can take more responsibility for their own lives in a world that is ever smaller, where everyone counts.... 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.

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

constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely responsable

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.

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

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.

We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.

Let's create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don't fight because of our differences.

We live to prove that cooperation works better than conflict.

I have said many times-if I hadn't been exposed to music as a child I don't think I would have been president.

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

That all depends on what "is" is.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A preemptive action today, however well-justified, may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future. And because... I've done this. I've ordered these kinds of actions - I don't care how precise your bombs and your weapons are, when you set them off, innocent people will die.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman

I don't think the Republicans can damage my character

The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime.

I experimented with marijuana a time or two.

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

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.

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.

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

I'm very proud that the first bill I had the opportunity to sign into law as President was the Family and Medical Leave Act No parent should ever have to choose between work and family; between earning a decent wage and caring for a child.

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

We're not talking about a few rooms here with delicate personal matters involved.

In speaking powerfully and eloquently for mercy and reconciliation to people divided by old hatreds and persecuted by abuse of power, the Holy Father was a beacon of light not just for Catholics, but for all people.

Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.

You can't say you love your country and hate your government.