Top 500 William J. Clinton Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Today’s possibilities are not tomorrows guarantees.”

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

253. “The country is groaning and moaning and screaming for change.”

— William J. Clinton

254. “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

255. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

258. “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

259. “We have no intention of abandoning the American people to unproven theories and extreme positions. We’re the people party and we’re going to stick up for the people.”

— William J. Clinton

260. “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

261. “Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.”

— William J. Clinton

262. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

264. “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

265. “We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership.”

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

269. “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

270. “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

271. “Health care’s complicated, can be misrepresented, it’s personal, it can spark fear, it’s expensive, and the people who have got the money want to keep it.”

— William J. Clinton

272. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

274. “I do think that the role of the Internet, and the way it’s bringing everything into the home, has made a parent’s job much more difficult. And it’s harder to know what to do and how to do it. It’s much, much harder.”

— William J. Clinton

275. “I am fascinated by this partnership between Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett. It’s magic and I love it.”

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

277. “One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old “sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.””

— William J. Clinton

278. “We should make it a crime even to attempt to pollute. Our children should grow up next to parks, not poison.”

— William J. Clinton

279. “If President Reagan could be an actor and become president, maybe I could become an actor. I’ve got a good pension. I can work for cheap.”

— William J. Clinton

280. “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

281. “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

282. “I’m just trying to suppress my natural impulses and get back to work.”

— William J. Clinton

283. “I want to make it very clear that this middle-class tax cut, in my view, is central to any attempt we’re going to make to have a short-term economic strategy and a long-term fairness strategy, which is part of getting this country going again.”

— William J. Clinton

284. “Terrorists are as big a threat to our future, perhaps bigger, than organized crime.”

— William J. Clinton

285. “Americans – not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George – we’ve always been of two minds about the government, which is why the framers wrote the Constitution the way they did.”

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

— William J. Clinton

288. “By the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions.”

— William J. Clinton

289. “The most important question of the 21st century is not what or how much, it is ‘How?’ How do you propose to turn your good ideas into positive changes in other people’s lives? You must be the ‘how generation.’”

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

291. “Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic.”

— William J. Clinton

292. “Since I don’t have access to the White House pastry chef anymore, it’s done wonders for my figure.”

— William J. Clinton

293. “By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum wage for the entire year.”

— William J. Clinton

294. “We don’t need a constitutional amendment for kids to pray.”

— William J. Clinton

295. “When you’re president, the Democrats got to feel good when they walk in the door if you’re a Republican; if you’re a Democrat, the Republican has to feel like you’re listening. And you should be listening.”

— William J. Clinton

296. “Rarely have Americans lived through so much change, in so many ways, in so short a time. Quietly, but with gathering force, the ground has shifted beneath our feet as we have moved into an Information Age, a global economy, a truly new world.”

— William J. Clinton

297. “One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation. He appointed Republican Secretaries of Defense, the Army and Transportation. He appointed a Vice President who ran against him in 2008.”

— William J. Clinton

298. “You can’t blame the administration and the Republicans for taking us back to deficits, for spending the Social Security surplus and assaulting the environment. That’s what they promised to do in the last election.”

— William J. Clinton

299. “The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don’t have a war. We don’t have a depression, we don’t have a Cold War.”

— William J. Clinton

300. “Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the rural areas.”

— William J. Clinton