William J. Clinton Quotes

American - President Born: August 19, 1946

See also: Quotes about Bill Clinton

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, Scientific

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

Living, Independence, Making

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, Main Thing

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

Politics, Constant, Works

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, Make

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

Memorial Day, Cured, Nothing

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

Most, Stress, Think

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

I Think, Away, Globally

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

Children, Teach, Resolve

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

Still, Believe, Place

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

Career, Strong, Rejecting

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. William J. Clinton

Opposing, Strength, Values

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

Politics, Frustrated, Works

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

Character, Journey

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

Caring, Too, Cruel

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

I Am, Gun, Control

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

Motivation, New, Education

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

Poor Countries, South, Bush

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

New, Clean Energy, Like

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

Here, Will, Part

If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama. William J. Clinton

Shared, Alive, United

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country. William J. Clinton

Take, Country, Let Us

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President. William J. Clinton

Food, McDonald, Became

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

Running, Lot, Listening

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills. William J. Clinton

Inability, Hire, Necessary

In 1979, just after I became governor, I asked Hillary to chair a rural health committee to help expand health care to isolated farm and mountain areas. They recommended to do that partly by deploying trained nurse practitioners in places with no doctors to provide primary care they were trained to provide. William J. Clinton

Became, Trained, Rural

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