William J. Clinton Quotes

American - President Born: August 19, 1946

See also: Quotes about Bill Clinton

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. William J. Clinton

Life, Adversity, Live, Mistakes, Learn

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us. William J. Clinton

Education, Good, Growth, Opportunity

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

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

Wings, Eagle, You, Pig, Make, Put

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. William J. Clinton

Work, People, Independence, Free, Living

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. William J. Clinton

America, Nothing, Wrong, Right, Cannot

I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology. William J. Clinton

Leadership, Growth, American Dream, Want

Character is a journey, not a destination. William J. Clinton

Journey, Character, Destination

Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little. William J. Clinton

Caring, Too Much, Cruel, Little, Much

When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day. William J. Clinton

Good, Time, Day, Politics, Broken, World

When Chelsea was 9 months old, I was defeated for reelection in the Reagan landslide. And I became overnight, I think, the youngest former governor in the history of the country. We only had two-year terms back then. William J. Clinton

History, Think, Country, Back, Defeated

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense. William J. Clinton

History, Government, Problems, You, Say

When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation. William J. Clinton

Work, Good, Politics, Angry, World, Real

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone. William J. Clinton

Respect, Time, God, Humanity, Long, Will

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything. William J. Clinton

Education, Motivation, Information, New

I am in support of the NRA position on gun control. William J. Clinton

I Am, Support, Control, Gun, Gun Control

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

Time, Stress, Hate, People, Think, Need

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons. William J. Clinton

Children, Words, Teach, Resolve, Must

When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities. William J. Clinton

Daughter, Hope, World, Grandchildren

I married my best friend. I was still in awe after more than four years of being around her at how smart and strong and loving and caring she was. And I really hoped that her choosing me and rejecting my advice to pursue her own career was a decision she would never regret. William J. Clinton

Best, Caring, Decision, Strong, Smart

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. William J. Clinton

Democracy, America, World, Envy, Nothing

I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake. William J. Clinton

Work, Grateful, Together, I Am, People

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

Government, Believe, You, Contribution

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. William J. Clinton

Remember, Debt, Office, Republican, Left

I still believe in a place called Hope. William J. Clinton

Hope, Believe, Place, Still

My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office. William J. Clinton

Day, Wife, Plan, Office, New, Her

Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office? William J. Clinton

Office, Poor, Leave, Going, He

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