William J. Clinton Quotes

I spent a lot of time when I was president, trying to end wars, prevent killing, and promote understanding. What I have seen is that peace works better than conflict, and one of the best manifestations of it is in travel and tourism.

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

If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.

Most illegal immigrants are not by nature lawbreakers. Most are looking for the chance to live in dignity. Nevertheless we must continue to discourage illegal immigration for it undermines control of our borders...and even more punishes hard-working people who play by the rules and who wait for their turn to come to the United States. Therefore we must enforce our laws, but we will do so with justice and fairness.

Our campaign is the opposite of 'competence.'

Together, people with good hearts and fine minds can move the world.

There's nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

I want to make it very clear that this middle-class tax cut, in my view, is central to any attempt we're going to make to have a short-term economic strategy and a long-term fairness strategy, which is part of getting this country going again.

We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither.

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

I have never had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. I've never had an affair with her.

We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values. Technology can help cure diseases, but we can prevent a lot of diseases by old-fashioned changes in behavior.

When we put aside partisanship, embrace the best ideas regardless of where they come from and work for principled compromise, we can move America not left or right, but forward.

American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening.

What you earn depends on what you learn.

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.

Behind every great man there stands a great woman. Behind every great woman is a great behind.

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

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 should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it.

The era of big government is over.

The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!

I have never had sex with that woman, Hillary Clinton.

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.

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.

Character is a journey, not a destination.

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.

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

I mean, if President Reagan could be an actor and become a President, if Michael Douglas is your next choice, maybe I could become an actor. And I've got a good pension; I can work cheap, which is unusual around here.

The great thing about not being president anymore is I can say whatever I want, about anything. Of course [now], nobody really cares what I say. And now I have the worst of all worlds -- my wife has become the secretary of state, so no one really cares what I say -- unless I mess up.

This remains a very important opportunity for the American people to have their day in court against big tobacco and its marketing practices. I urge Congress to provide the funding to allow the lawsuit to move forward, and not to shield the tobacco industry from the consequences of its actions.

An innocent bureaucratic snafu.

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

If no one consumes these products, people will stop roducing them. They will not build it if you didn't come.

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

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.

When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps

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

It's the economy, stupid.

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

[Americans know] the traditional values of Islam, devotion to faith and good works, to family and society, are in harmony with the best of American ideals.