Top 500 William J. Clinton Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Presidents are not permitted to have personal feelings.”

— William J. Clinton

302. “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

303. “It’s heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.”

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

305. “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

306. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

310. “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

311. “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

312. “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

313. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

315. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

318. “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

319. “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

320. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

322. “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

323. “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

324. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

327. “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

328. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

330. “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

331. “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

332. “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

333. “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

334. “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

335. “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

336. “I know that the precise magnitude and patterns of climate change cannot be fully predicted. But global warming clearly is a growing, long-term threat with profound consequences. And make no mistake about it, it will take decades to reverse.”

— William J. Clinton

337. “There is a huge body of business evidence now showing that energy savings give better service at lower cost with higher profit. We have to tear down barriers to successful markets and we have to create incentives to enter them.”

— William J. Clinton

338. “To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit – investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value.”

— William J. Clinton

339. “Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.”

— William J. Clinton

340. “I don’t believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.”

— William J. Clinton

341. “People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons.”

— William J. Clinton

342. “If you take advantage of the fact that technology abolishes distance, then you won’t need to go to India. Just go to Indiana.”

— William J. Clinton

343. “I want American Dream growth – lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.”

— William J. Clinton

344. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

346. “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

347. “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

348. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton