Top 500 William J. Clinton Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.”

— William J. Clinton

152. “I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come – and gone. It’s time for change in America.”

— William J. Clinton

153. “After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This formal acknowledgment comes far too late but still we must all welcome it. It can be the beginning of clearing the air.”

— William J. Clinton

154. “We live to prove that cooperation works better than conflict.”

— William J. Clinton

155. “Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind.”

— William J. Clinton

156. “He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can’t let go of the hatred of their enemies they risk sowing the seeds of hate among themselves.”

— William J. Clinton

157. “I made a big mistake. It is indefensible and I am sorry.”

— William J. Clinton

158. “The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is ‘citizen.’ This is our republic. Let us keep it!”

— William J. Clinton

159. “Simply put, no society can truly flourish if it stifles the dreams and productivity of half its population. Happily, I see evidence all over the world that women are gaining social and economic power that they never had before. This is good news...”

— William J. Clinton

160. “The Bible is the authoritative Word of God and contains all truth.”

— William J. Clinton

161. “I don’t like to use the word sacrifice.”

— William J. Clinton

162. “It’s the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.”

— William J. Clinton

163. “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

164. “We set forth on a journey to bring our vision to our country, to keep the American dream alive for all who are willing to work for it, to make our American community stronger, to keep America the world’s strongest force for peace and freedom and prosperity.”

— William J. Clinton

165. “The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past time for us to take action to correct these problems.”

— William J. Clinton

166. “You don’t have to wait till your party’s in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world.”

— William J. Clinton

167. “I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.”

— William J. Clinton

168. “I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.”

— William J. Clinton

169. “Everybody knows that I have tougher ethics rules than any other previous President.”

— William J. Clinton

170. “If you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat.”

— William J. Clinton

171. “We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...”

— William J. Clinton

172. “When you stifle human potential, when you don’t invest in new ideas, it doesn’t just cut off the people who are affected. It hurts us all.”

— William J. Clinton

173. “Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.”

— William J. Clinton

174. “Just because we cannot do everything for everyone does not mean we should do nothing for anyone.”

— William J. Clinton

175. “Edgar Wayburn has worked to preserve the most breath-taking examples of the American landscape. In fact, over the course of more than a half-century, both as President of the Sierra Club and as a private citizen, he has saved more of our wilderness than any person alive.”

— William J. Clinton

176. “No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won’t come true because they don’t even mean them – campaign fantasies that win elections but don’t get nations moving again.”

— William J. Clinton

177. “Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can’t escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits.”

— William J. Clinton

178. “The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart.”

— William J. Clinton

179. “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

180. “When personal freedom’s being abused, you have to move to limit it. That’s what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we’re going to have weapon sweeps.”

— William J. Clinton

181. “More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.”

— William J. Clinton

182. “We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love.”

— William J. Clinton

183. “Indeed I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong.”

— William J. Clinton

184. “Climate change is more remote than terror but a more profound threat to the future of the children and the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren I hope all of you have.”

— William J. Clinton

185. “We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner of a truly unifying national effort. We can start right now.”

— William J. Clinton

186. “Frankly, I’m fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn’t.”

— William J. Clinton

187. “That is, we’re into a whole new world with the Internet, and whenever we sort of cross another plateau in our development, there are those who seek to take advantage of it. So this is a replay of things that have happened throughout our history.”

— William J. Clinton

188. “I think what breaks people is not adversity; what breaks people is thinking that tomorrow is going to be just like yesterday. That’s what’s numbing – if you think you can’t change, you can’t be better. And I didn’t like that.”

— William J. Clinton

189. “Nearly everyone will lie to you given the right circumstances.”

— William J. Clinton

190. “Without a high pain threshold, you can’t be a successful President.”

— William J. Clinton

191. “Only the police should have handguns.”

— William J. Clinton

192. “It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it.”

— William J. Clinton

193. “Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.”

— William J. Clinton

194. “Our Nation owes a lasting debt of gratitude to all those selfless members of our Armed Forces who have risked their own freedom and safety to defend the the lives and liberty of others.”

— William J. Clinton

195. “We live in a completely interdependent world, which simply means we can not escape each other. How we respond to AIDS depends, in part, on whether we understand this interdependence. It is not someone else’s problem. This is everybody’s problem.”

— William J. Clinton

196. “It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine: First and most important, my family; also my friends, my staff, my Cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family, and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness.”

— William J. Clinton

197. “A man is more than the sum of all the things he can do.”

— William J. Clinton

198. “When we give what we can, and give it with joy, we don’t just renew the American tradition of giving, we also renew ourselves.”

— William J. Clinton

199. “Sometimes I think the environment in which we operate is entirely too secular. The fact that we have freedom of religion doesn’t mean we need to try to have freedom from religion.”

— William J. Clinton

200. “Democracies don’t go to war against each other, and by and large they don’t sponsor terrorism. They’re more likely to respect the environment and human rights and social justice. It’s no accident that most of the terrorists come from non-democratic countries.”

— William J. Clinton