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

William J. Clinton

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, Main Thing

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

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, Make

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

Caring, Cruel, Too

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

Memorial Day, Nothing, Cured

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

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

Education, Motivation, New

Where are the jobs going to come from? Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now. William J. Clinton

Small, Small Business

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

Independence, Living, Making

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

Listening, Running, Lot

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, Like, Clean Energy

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

Journey, Character

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

Food, McDonald, Became

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

Stress, Think, Most

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

Strong, Career, Rejecting

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

I Am, Gun, Control

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

Deep, Say, Innocents

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

Country, Let Us, Take

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

Believe, Place, Still

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

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

Country, Chelsea, Became

You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president. William J. Clinton

Know, Everybody, Makes

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

Mine, Memoirs, Lot

In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever. William J. Clinton

Chaos, Almost, Lives

If you think the President was right to open the doors of American opportunity to young immigrants brought here as children who want to go to college or serve in the military, you should vote for Barack Obama. William J. Clinton

College, Here, Brought

I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it. William J. Clinton

Like, Anybody, Sure

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