Top 500 William J. Clinton Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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

252. “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

253. “They are cutting medicare.”

— William J. Clinton

254. “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

255. “We want to live forever, and we’re getting there.”

— William J. Clinton

256. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

260. “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

261. “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

262. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

265. “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

266. “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

267. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

269. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

271. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

276. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

278. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

281. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

284. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

286. “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

287. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

289. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

291. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

293. “The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.”

— William J. Clinton

294. “All of us have to do a better job of teaching young people not to let themselves be defined by the words other people use against them.”

— William J. Clinton

295. “It was Mario Cuomo’s great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing.”

— William J. Clinton

296. “We have the most religious freedom of any country in the world, including the freedom not to believe.”

— William J. Clinton

297. “We will reduce the White House staff by 25 percent.”

— William J. Clinton

298. “I am trying to be honest with you and it hurts me. Now...”

— William J. Clinton

299. “I don’t know in my long life that I ever worked with anybody that has quite the combination of policy knowledge and concern, political skills, of a personal touch with people, and a sense of innate fairness that inspires confidence.”

— William J. Clinton

300. “Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.”

— William J. Clinton