Top 500 William J. Clinton Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.”

— William J. Clinton

52. “If there’s grass in the field, play ball!”

— William J. Clinton

53. “Nothing big ever came from being small.”

— William J. Clinton

54. “You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.”

— William J. Clinton

55. “The people have spoken, but it will take a while to determine exactly what they said.”

— William J. Clinton

56. “Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.”

— William J. Clinton

57. “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

58. “When people are feeling insecure, they’d rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.”

— William J. Clinton

59. “That all depends on what “is” is.”

— William J. Clinton

60. “If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government’s ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.”

— William J. Clinton

61. “Poverty, discrimination, and ignorance restrict growth.”

— William J. Clinton

62. “When personal freedom’s being abused, you have to move to limit it.”

— William J. Clinton

63. “I still believe in a place called Hope, a place called America.”

— William J. Clinton

64. “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

65. “Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.”

— William J. Clinton

66. “In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.”

— William J. Clinton

67. “Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.”

— William J. Clinton

68. “Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II’s slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas – to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.”

— William J. Clinton

69. “Sincerity? I can fake that.”

— William J. Clinton

70. “When you strip away all the little things that divide us, it’s important to remember how tied we are.”

— William J. Clinton

71. “What works in the real world is cooperation.”

— William J. Clinton

72. “True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.”

— William J. Clinton

73. “Downsizing budgets may be necessary, but downsizing dreams is a decision to be disappointed.”

— William J. Clinton

74. “We need to help younger people recognize their own capacity to do good, and help them discover the rewards of generosity.”

— William J. Clinton

75. “Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it’s the time when they most need to think.”

— William J. Clinton

76. “There seems to be no mainframe explanation for the PC world in which we’re living.”

— William J. Clinton

77. “Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action.”

— William J. Clinton

78. “Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We, the American people, we are the solution.”

— William J. Clinton

79. “Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music and arts programs. They increase the ability of young people to do math. They increase the ability of young people to read. And most important of all, they’re a lot of fun.”

— William J. Clinton

80. “We must say no to illegal immigration so we can continue to say yes to legal immigration.”

— William J. Clinton

81. “I love and revere the rich and proud history of America. And I am determined to take our best traditions into the future. But with all respect, we do not need to build a bridge to the past. We need to build a bridge to the future.”

— William J. Clinton

82. “You should strive to find happiness every day and not believe that it comes at the end of the journey.”

— William J. Clinton

83. “I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully AND testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.”

— William J. Clinton

84. “Politics is for people who are too ugly to get into showbusiness.”

— William J. Clinton

85. “I like that about the Republicans; the evidence does not faze them, they are not bothered at all by the facts.”

— William J. Clinton

86. “As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.”

— William J. Clinton

87. “America’s greatness depends on the ability of its citizens to make the most of their lives. Americans with disabilities are an enormous, often untapped reservoir of that potential.”

— William J. Clinton

88. “If one candidate is appealing to your fears, and the other one’s appealing to your hopes, you’d better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope!”

— William J. Clinton

89. “Hope I lived up to my reputation for being slick.”

— William J. Clinton

90. “If you want to have a good life you have to have some constructive outlet for your feelings.”

— William J. Clinton

91. “I spent a lot of time when I was president, trying to end wars, prevent killing, and promote understanding. What I have seen is that peace works better than conflict, and one of the best manifestations of it is in travel and tourism.”

— William J. Clinton

92. “Ultimately, the best strategy to ensure our security and to build a durable peace is to support the advance of democracy elsewhere. Democracies don’t attack each other.”

— William J. Clinton

93. “I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.”

— William J. Clinton

94. “There’s never a perfect bipartisan bill in the eyes of a partisan.”

— William J. Clinton

95. “The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.”

— William J. Clinton

96. “Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.”

— William J. Clinton

97. “Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.”

— William J. Clinton

98. “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

99. “The economy has produced 6.1 million jobs since I became president, and if Michael Jordan comes back to the Bulls, it will be 6,100,001 jobs.”

— William J. Clinton

100. “Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.”

— William J. Clinton