Top 500 William J. Clinton Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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

203. “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

204. “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

205. “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

206. “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

207. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

210. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

212. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

214. “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

215. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

218. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

220. “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

221. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

223. “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

224. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

227. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

230. “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

231. “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

232. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

234. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

238. “Almost makes you want to go to jail out here, doesn’t it?”

— William J. Clinton

239. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

242. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

245. “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

246. “Won’t it be sad to have an Internet connection to Mars if there are no Martians to write to or e-mail us?”

— William J. Clinton

247. “You know the one thing that’s wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.”

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

249. “You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.”

— William J. Clinton

250. “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