Top 500 William J. Clinton Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.”

— William J. Clinton

202. “The stimulus is our bridge over troubled waters. And if it’s invested well, it’ll generate a lot of economic growth, and we’ll get quite a bit of the revenues back.”

— William J. Clinton

203. “Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.”

— William J. Clinton

204. “The purpose of politics is to give people tools to make the most of their lives.”

— William J. Clinton

205. “America just works better when more people have a chance to live their dreams.”

— William J. Clinton

206. “The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we’d have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.”

— William J. Clinton

207. “No one who has lived through the second half of the 20th century could possibly be blind to the enormous impact of exchange programs on the future of countries...”

— William J. Clinton

208. “Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service...”

— William J. Clinton

209. “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

210. “Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.”

— William J. Clinton

211. “My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.”

— William J. Clinton

212. “Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.”

— William J. Clinton

213. “Only a fool does not look to explain his mistakes.”

— William J. Clinton

214. “Noting his mother’s visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early.”

— William J. Clinton

215. “On Bill Clinton: I have a simple question: Who’s the last President to give you a balanced budget?”

— William J. Clinton

216. “I’m pretty good at seeing like a lot of different things happening at once and putting them in a pattern and figuring out how you can rearrange it so it might have a better outcome.”

— William J. Clinton

217. “I will never let Israel down...”

— William J. Clinton

218. “In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.”

— William J. Clinton

219. “Let us do the work that is before us, so that when our time here is over we will all watch the sun go down as we all must, and say truly, we have prepared our children for the dawn.”

— William J. Clinton

220. “Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there’s plenty of people below you but no one’s listening.”

— William J. Clinton

221. “It’s good for young people to be angry about something.”

— William J. Clinton

222. “I love the HRC. The initials are great.”

— William J. Clinton

223. “We should scrub all of our federal regulations to find responsible ways to make life easier to small businesses, i want to be a small business president.”

— William J. Clinton

224. “I have never had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. I’ve never had an affair with her.”

— William J. Clinton

225. “Elvis Presley was the first and the best. He is my favorite of all time.”

— William J. Clinton

226. “Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American.”

— William J. Clinton

227. “You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.”

— William J. Clinton

228. “And I’d like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.”

— William J. Clinton

229. “My fellow Americans, we can only build our bridge to the 21st century if we build it together, and if we’re willing to walk arm-in-arm across that bridge together.”

— William J. Clinton

230. “I want to nominate a man who’s cool on the outside, but who burns for America on the inside.”

— William J. Clinton

231. “I can spend your money better than you can.”

— William J. Clinton

232. “Four years ago nobody but nuclear physicists had ever heard of the Internet. Today even my cat, Socks, has his own web page. I’m amazed at that. I meet kids all the time, been talking to my cat on the Internet.”

— William J. Clinton

233. “Every tax cut I call for is targeted, it’s responsible and it is paid for within my balanced budget plan. My tax cuts will not undermine our economy. They will speed economic growth.”

— William J. Clinton

234. “I have said many times-if I hadn’t been exposed to music as a child I don’t think I would have been president.”

— William J. Clinton

235. “I’m proud to say that there is not a single Russian nuclear missile pointed at an American child.”

— William J. Clinton

236. “A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.”

— William J. Clinton

237. “When it comes to anything that’s social, whether it’s your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.”

— William J. Clinton

238. “The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military.”

— William J. Clinton

239. “Marijuana is ten times more dangerous than twenty years ago.”

— William J. Clinton

240. “American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.”

— William J. Clinton

241. “What’s a man got to do to get in the top fifty?”

— William J. Clinton

242. “To avoid having bad things happen, learning to manage your anger and to actually share how you really feel about something, and get it behind you is one of the most important aspects of growing up.”

— William J. Clinton

243. “We can’t afford to lose control of our own borders or to take on new financial burdens at a time when we are not adequately providing for the jobs, the health care and the education of our own people.”

— William J. Clinton

244. “We find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well.”

— William J. Clinton

245. “Any president that lies to the American people should have to resign.”

— William J. Clinton

246. “You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.”

— William J. Clinton

247. “You don’t have to be an elected official to be a public servant.”

— William J. Clinton

248. “The most ethical administration in the history of the Republic.”

— William J. Clinton

249. “When I leave the office on January 20th, I will leave even more idealistic than I was the day I took the oath of office.”

— William J. Clinton

250. “These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does life’s meaning also require negative comparison to others?”

— William J. Clinton