Top 500 William J. Clinton Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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

252. “If we disagree and I think I’m right, I just go ahead and do what I think is right. And then she tells me, ‘I told you so.’”

— William J. Clinton

253. “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

254. “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

255. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

257. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

259. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

261. “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

262. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

264. “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

265. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

269. “Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.”

— William J. Clinton

270. “You know what higher interest rates mean. To you it means a higher mortgage payment, a higher car payment, a higher credit card payment. To our economy it means businesspeople will not borrow as much money, invest as much money, create as many new jobs, create as much wealth, raise as many raises.”

— William J. Clinton

271. “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

272. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

274. “The problem with any ideology is that it gives you the answer before you examine the evidence.”

— William J. Clinton

275. “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

276. “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

277. “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

278. “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

279. “People like change in general, but not in particular.”

— William J. Clinton

280. “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

281. “I’ve gained first hand knowledge of the challenges faced by people with disabilities. It’s made me understand that those of us who have full use of our physical faculties owe an enormous amount of respect and sensitivity to people who don’t.”

— William J. Clinton

282. “I regret to say that my hand did, in fact, have an improper relationship with Chelsea Clinton. The incident represents a profound lapse of judgment for which my hand takes sole responsibility.”

— William J. Clinton

283. “We will lower the tax burden on middle class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair share. Middle class taxpayers will have a choice between a children’s tax credit or a significant reduction in their income tax rate.”

— William J. Clinton

284. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

286. “It is now conceivable that our children’s children will know the term cancer only as a constellation of stars.”

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

288. “There are times when only America can make the difference between war and peace, between freedom and repression, between life and death. We cannot save all the world’s children, but we can save many of them.”

— William J. Clinton

289. “We should stay on the right track to the 21st century. Opportunity alone is not enough. I want to build an America in the 21st century in which all Americans take personal responsibility for themselves, their families, their communities and their country.”

— William J. Clinton

290. “Palestinians are a hard-working and an incredible community. They have done remarkably well outside their country. I have never met a poor Palestinian in the United States; every Palestinian I know is a college professor or a doctor.”

— William J. Clinton

291. “Some day we hope to liberate every man on earth from the tendency as old as human history to identify our strength and manhood with the ability to control the lives, limit the chances, and doom the dreams of women and girls.”

— William J. Clinton

292. “I did a lot of work on energy efficiency at the White House. By the time I left we had taken the equivalent of six hundred cars a year off the road in reduced greenhouse gas emissions just in the White House complex.”

— William J. Clinton

293. “If you believe in the values of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, if you’re willing to work hard and play by the rules, you are part of our family. And we’re proud to be with you.”

— William J. Clinton

294. “Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.”

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

296. “I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.”

— William J. Clinton

297. “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

298. “Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.”

— William J. Clinton

299. “We are moving people from welfare to work. On welfare, we launch a quiet revolution.”

— William J. Clinton

300. “Today’s possibilities are not tomorrows guarantees.”

— William J. Clinton