Top 500 William J. Clinton Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.”

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

53. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

55. “The most powerful people on earth are focus groups.”

— William J. Clinton

56. “Nobody is right all the time and even a broken clock is right twice a day.”

— William J. Clinton

57. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

61. “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

62. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

65. “Everybody counts, everybody deserves a chance, everybody has a responsible role to play and we all do better when we work together.”

— William J. Clinton

66. “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

67. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

74. “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

75. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

79. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

81. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

84. “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

85. “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

86. “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”

— William J. Clinton

87. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

90. “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

91. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

95. “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

96. “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

97. “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

98. “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

99. “I’m someone who had a deep emotional attachment to ‘Starsky and Hutch.’”

— William J. Clinton

100. “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