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, Long

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, Growth, Opportunity, Good

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, You, Wings, Pig, Make, Put

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, Running

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

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

Time, Good, Politics, Day, Broken, World

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

Journey, Character, Destination

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

Vote, Future, Peace, American Dream, You

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

Support, I Am, Control, Gun, Gun Control

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

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

American Dream, College, American, Dream

Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all. William J. Clinton

Best, Opportunity, Responsibility, World

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

Caring, Too Much, Cruel, Little, Much

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, Hurt, Deep, Say, I Can, Matter

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, Nothing

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

America, Wrong, Nothing, Right, Cannot

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

Time, Respect, God, Humanity, Long, Will

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

Hope, Daughter, World, Think, Successful

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

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

Strength, Wisdom, Values, Opposing

President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission. William J. Clinton

Future, Plan, Debt, Kind, Two, Over

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

Food, McDonald, President, Since, Eaten

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

Job, Like, Miss, Sure, Most, Much

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, Best Friend, Caring, Smart, Strong

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

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, Conflict

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