William J. Clinton Quotes

American - President Born: August 19, 1946

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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, Live, Adversity, Mistakes, Better

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

Eagle, Wings, 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, Free, Independence, Living

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

Caring, Too Much, Little, Cruel, Much

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable. William J. Clinton

American Dream, College, American, Dream

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, World, America, Envy, Wrong

Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents. William J. Clinton

Me, Deep, Hurt, I Can, Say, Matter

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving. William J. Clinton

Hope, Interesting, Say, They Say, Mine

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

Character, Journey, Destination

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, New

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

Friend, Decision, Best, Smart, Caring

You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being and that of your family and your country. William J. Clinton

Family, Change, Decision, You, Country

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

My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in. If you want a you're on your own, winner take all society you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibilities - a 'we're all in it together' society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden. William J. Clinton

Live, Together, Support, Society, Winner

If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better, you know it's hard, and some people think it's boring. William J. Clinton

Change, People, Believe, Think, Better

One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line. William J. Clinton

Way, Line, Determined, Bottom, Deliver

In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average. William J. Clinton

Technology, Today, Learn, Information

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

Responsibility, Country, More, Take, Us

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

Children, Words, Teach, Resolve, Must

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

People, Listening, You, Nobody, Cemetery

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

America, Wrong, Nothing, Right, Cannot

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

Future, Peace, American Dream, World

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 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, Think, Leave

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

I Am, Support, Control, Gun, Gun Control

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