Top 500 William J. Clinton Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “We are here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. Without a doubt, this is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by human kind.”

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

303. “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

304. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

308. “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

309. “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

310. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

312. “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

313. “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

314. “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

315. “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

316. “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

317. “I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that ends the permanent underclass, that lifts up the poor and ends their isolation, their exile, and they are not forgotten anymore.”

— William J. Clinton

318. “You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year’s one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.”

— William J. Clinton

319. “We simply have to transition from an economy based almost exclusively on oil and coal and natural gas to one that’s far more diversified, that uses solar energy, and wind energy, and the power of the tides, and bio-mass energy, and eventually, develops hydrogen.”

— William J. Clinton

320. “We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it.”

— William J. Clinton

321. “I don’t think the Republicans can damage my character.”

— William J. Clinton

322. “Well, I don’t have much job security.”

— William J. Clinton

323. “The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the end, all the world’s wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of the human spirit.”

— William J. Clinton

324. “When we put aside partisanship, embrace the best ideas regardless of where they come from and work for principled compromise, we can move America not left or right, but forward.”

— William J. Clinton

325. “I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we’ve done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake.”

— William J. Clinton

326. “I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.”

— William J. Clinton

327. “I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I’m showing up for work tomorrow.”

— William J. Clinton

328. “The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.”

— William J. Clinton

329. “I believe I’m a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.”

— William J. Clinton

330. “Cooperation will save the future. And America should lead it. Every time humanity has been in danger of extinguishing itself, our consciousness and our conscience have led us to come together. That’s the big issue of the 21st century.”

— William J. Clinton

331. “I will tell you this: I will not raise taxes on the middle-class to pay for these programs.”

— William J. Clinton

332. “I think it’s crazy for us to play games with our children’s future. We know what’s happening to the climate, we have a highly predictable set of consequences if we continue to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.”

— William J. Clinton

333. “I don’t mind the debates, they’re good for America, but we shouldn’t be out there attacking each other all the time.”

— William J. Clinton

334. “Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values.”

— William J. Clinton

335. “She got to go to heaven four days early.”

— William J. Clinton

336. “We all have to learn to live together.”

— William J. Clinton

337. “Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system.”

— William J. Clinton

338. “Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy.”

— William J. Clinton

339. “It’s important that the American people understand that President has proposed and passed this stimulus plan not as the end-all and be-all to our economic woes but as our bridge over troubled water until we get the finance system, the banking system working again.”

— William J. Clinton

340. “I believe that this country’s policies should be heavily biased in favor of nondiscrimination.”

— William J. Clinton

341. “The struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation’s character.”

— William J. Clinton

342. “The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.”

— William J. Clinton

343. “When people think, Democrats win.”

— William J. Clinton

344. “When, President Bush asks me to go with his father to the Tsunami impacted areas and help raise money, I was thrilled to do that, because I think we have to always keep looking for common ground.”

— William J. Clinton

345. “When I was in office I expressed admiration and respect and even affection for Republicans that I knew and liked and cared about, and I tried to find ways to work with them. I think the Democrats should do that, and just keep trying to lower the temperature.”

— William J. Clinton

346. “It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden altogether in public schools; however, nothing in the First Amendment converts our public schools into religion-free zones.”

— William J. Clinton

347. “In general I saw my job as the first president whose full term would be served after the Cold War in a global information society where we were interdependent but not integrated. And therefore, we were vulnerable to the worst, and able to seize the best, of what’s going on in the world.”

— William J. Clinton

348. “Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a relentless, questioning, hopeful people.”

— William J. Clinton

349. “Just try to imagine what it would be like to be 300 million years old.”

— William J. Clinton

350. “A parent may be without a job, but no child should be without a doctor.”

— William J. Clinton