Top 500 William J. Clinton Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I’m someone who had a deep emotional attachment to ‘Starsky and Hutch.’”

— William J. Clinton

102. “No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.”

— William J. Clinton

103. “Our bridge to the future must include bridges to other nations, because we remain the world’s indispensable nation to advance prosperity, peace and freedom and to keep our own children safe from the dangers of terror and weapons of mass destruction.”

— William J. Clinton

104. “Sometimes I feel like a fire hydrant looking at a pack of dogs.”

— William J. Clinton

105. “Sharing in God’s blessings is at the heart of Thanksgiving and at the core of the American spirit.”

— William J. Clinton

106. “By lifting the weakest, poorest among us, we lift the rest of us as well.”

— William J. Clinton

107. “When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.”

— William J. Clinton

108. “Character doesn’t matter.”

— William J. Clinton

109. “If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.”

— William J. Clinton

110. “I believe that those who promote discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or any other grounds are gravely mistaken about the values that make our nation strong. I will continue to move my administration in the direction of compassion, acceptance, and understanding.”

— William J. Clinton

111. “Golf is like life in a lot of ways – All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.”

— William J. Clinton

112. “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

113. “I may not have been the greatest president, but I’ve had the most fun eight years.”

— William J. Clinton

114. “I don’t think I would have become President if it were not for my school music program.”

— William J. Clinton

115. “Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.”

— William J. Clinton

116. “The Republicans could mess up a two car parade.”

— William J. Clinton

117. “To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization. It’s the central reality of our time.”

— William J. Clinton

118. “Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.”

— William J. Clinton

119. “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time – never. These allegations are false.”

— William J. Clinton

120. “When I was a younger man and had a life, I owned an El Camino pickup in the ’70s. It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had Astroturf in the back.”

— William J. Clinton

121. “Progress changes consciousness, and when people’s consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well – a virtuous circle.”

— William J. Clinton

122. “This will arguably be the third great revolution of America, if we can prove that we literally can live without having a dominant European culture.”

— William J. Clinton

123. “There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have seen the Taj Mahal and love it and those who have not seen the Taj and love it.”

— William J. Clinton

124. “For too long we’ve been told about ‘us’ and ‘them.’ Each and every election we see a new slate of arguments and ads telling us that ‘they’ are the problem, not ‘us.’ But there can be no ‘them’ in America. There’s only us.”

— William J. Clinton

125. “The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime.”

— William J. Clinton

126. “Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America’s economic, political, and social life.”

— William J. Clinton

127. “Forget what you may have heard about a digital divide or worries that the world is splintering into ‘info haves’ and ‘info have-nots.’ The fact is, technology fosters equality, and it’s often the relatively cheap and mundane devices that do the most good.”

— William J. Clinton

128. “I don’t know whether it’s the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system.”

— William J. Clinton

129. “We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else’s opportunities, you shrink your own horizons.”

— William J. Clinton

130. “Abortion should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare.”

— William J. Clinton

131. “Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.”

— William J. Clinton

132. “A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military.”

— William J. Clinton

133. “If you want to be forgiven, you have to extend forgiveness, even to people who aren’t smart enough to ask for it.”

— William J. Clinton

134. “African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do.”

— William J. Clinton

135. “There’s nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don’t respond with encores.”

— William J. Clinton

136. “I’m sorry, could you please tell me what the definition of the word “is” is?”

— William J. Clinton

137. “I would never approach a small-breasted woman.”

— William J. Clinton

138. “The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves.”

— William J. Clinton

139. “Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.”

— William J. Clinton

140. “The last time I checked, the Constitution said, ‘of the people, by the people and for the people.’ That’s what the Declaration of Independence says.”

— William J. Clinton

141. “An innocent bureaucratic snafu.”

— William J. Clinton

142. “If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you’ll wonder about it for the rest of your life.”

— William J. Clinton

143. “Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make ’em go.”

— William J. Clinton

144. “Just as war is freedom’s cost, disagreement is freedom’s privilege.”

— William J. Clinton

145. “Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.”

— William J. Clinton

146. “In the emerging global economy, everything is mobile: capital, factories, even entire industries. The only resource that’s really rooted in a nation – and the ultimate source of all its wealth – is its people.”

— William J. Clinton

147. “Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.”

— William J. Clinton

148. “I haven’t eaten at a McDonald’s since I became President.”

— William J. Clinton

149. “We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values. Technology can help cure diseases, but we can prevent a lot of diseases by old-fashioned changes in behavior.”

— William J. Clinton

150. “All my life I’ve been interested in other people’s stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them.”

— William J. Clinton