Top 500 William J. Clinton Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “President Obama’s approach embodies the values, the ideas, and the direction America must take to build a 21st century version of the American Dream in a nation of shared opportunities, shared prosperity and shared responsibilities.”

— William J. Clinton

452. “You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any other country in the world. You vote for me and I’ll give you family values.”

— William J. Clinton

453. “I think actually that the speech work I do is fine. It’s important, because I try to help people think about what’s going on and organize their lives accordingly.”

— William J. Clinton

454. “I want the ability to monitor high-tech communications among far-flung terrorists. I want to be able to have our people learn their plans before they strike. That’s the key.”

— William J. Clinton

455. “You can’t be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.”

— William J. Clinton

456. “First, I worry about climate change. It’s the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we know it, and make a lot of the other efforts that we’re making irrelevant and impossible.”

— William J. Clinton

457. “It might suprise you to know I think I raised them too much, too.”

— William J. Clinton

458. “But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.”

— William J. Clinton

459. “I wanted to continue to be active on those things that I cared about when I was president where I could still have an impact.”

— William J. Clinton

460. “I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.”

— William J. Clinton

461. “I did have a relationship with Ms Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible.”

— William J. Clinton

462. “If you are focusing your anger at government, you are focusing your anger at all of us. Government is just a personification of this country.”

— William J. Clinton

463. “The new energy future is decentralised, entrepreneurial and needs people like you to say ‘Give me a clean car, give me solar shingles to put on my roof – give me a clean future’”

— William J. Clinton

464. “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

465. “The era of big government is over.”

— William J. Clinton

466. “I never thought of political endeavors primarily in terms of power and prestige, and I never thought of economic endeavors primarily in terms of wealth and position.”

— William J. Clinton

467. “It is pretty hard to talk about responsibility unless you have exercised it yourself.”

— William J. Clinton

468. “I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.”

— William J. Clinton

469. “The United States is too big and we are too involved with too many people for any president to be able to take actions that will be universally agreed to all day, every day and everywhere in the world.”

— William J. Clinton

470. “We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in the clash of controversy, we don’t see our own time for what it truly is – a new dawn for America.”

— William J. Clinton

471. “This remains a very important opportunity for the American people to have their day in court against big tobacco and its marketing practices. I urge Congress to provide the funding to allow the lawsuit to move forward, and not to shield the tobacco industry from the consequences of its actions.”

— William J. Clinton

472. “Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.”

— William J. Clinton

473. “I have no intention of raising taxes.”

— William J. Clinton

474. “Somehow we all end up paying for what we do.”

— William J. Clinton

475. “Only astrophysicists new about the Internet 20 years ago. Today my cat has a website.”

— William J. Clinton

476. “Life’s real victories must be shared.”

— William J. Clinton

477. “What we believe in is what works.”

— William J. Clinton

478. “Without question, bicycling is an efficient, economical and environmentally sound form of transportation and recreation. Bicycling is a great activity for families, recreational riders and commuters. Hillary, Chelsea and I have bicycles...”

— William J. Clinton

479. “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

480. “The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it, the 21st century will be the most interesting, exciting, peaceful era in history.”

— William J. Clinton

481. “We cannot become the world’s policeman, but where our values and our interests are at stake, and where we can make a difference, we must act and we must lead. That is our job and we are better, stronger and safer because we are doing it.”

— William J. Clinton

482. “I personally don’t believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I’ll pay more, but it won’t solve the problem.”

— William J. Clinton

483. “I mean, when’s the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the Senate before he started running? I mean, he will have been a senator longer by the time he’s inaugurated, but essentially once you start running for president full time you don’t have time to do much else.”

— William J. Clinton

484. “I believe that people of my income group should pay more, and I explained why, but that won’t necessarily lift overall wage levels.”

— William J. Clinton

485. “There are always going to be people who want to be president, and some days I’d like to give it to them.”

— William J. Clinton

486. “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

487. “We passed welfare reform. All of you know I believe we were right to do it.”

— William J. Clinton

488. “The established order has too many self-protecting economic entities, and not enough people who yet understand what it takes to change.”

— William J. Clinton

489. “You can’t blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity.”

— William J. Clinton

490. “Let’s adopt some short-term strategies to get growth going and then let’s have a long-term debt reduction package. That’s what I think we should do and I think it will work.”

— William J. Clinton

491. “We know that progress is not inevitable. But neither was victory upon these beaches. Now, as then, the inner voice tells us to stand up and move forward. Now, as then, free people must choose.”

— William J. Clinton

492. “Even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.”

— William J. Clinton

493. “I was an equal opportunity eater. Every ethnic group got a shot.”

— William J. Clinton

494. “If ever there comes a time when everyone you vote for wins and they do everything you think they should do, there will still be a gap between what is and what ought to be.”

— William J. Clinton

495. “We have to change the whole job structure of America. We have got to basically reorient our economy toward the future.”

— William J. Clinton

496. “If you wanna maintain 20 percent of the world’s income with 4 percent of the world’s people, you gotta first of all have more shared prosperity and shared growth.”

— William J. Clinton

497. “We must continue to deepen our ties to the Americas and the Caribbean, our common work to educate children, fight drugs, strengthen democracy, and increase trade.”

— William J. Clinton

498. “I was not elected to produce a pile of vetoes.”

— William J. Clinton

499. “If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program.”

— William J. Clinton

500. “When you get asked hundreds of questions, it’s not possible to remember the answer to every one.”

— William J. Clinton