Top 500 William J. Clinton Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

303. “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

304. “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

305. “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

306. “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

307. “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

308. “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

309. “When I started out in public life there used to be a saying we’d hear from time to time, that every man who runs for public office will claim that he was born in a log cabin he built with his own hands. Well, my mother knew better. And she made sure I did too.”

— William J. Clinton

310. “Citizenship in the 21st century requires more than paying your taxes and voting and occasionally running for office. That even if you’re never in political office, you have political responsibilities. You can make your society stronger and better.”

— William J. Clinton

311. “My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism.”

— William J. Clinton

312. “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

313. “The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.”

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

315. “Presidents are not permitted to have personal feelings.”

— William J. Clinton

316. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

319. “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

320. “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

321. “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

322. “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

323. “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

324. “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

325. “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

326. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

328. “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

329. “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

330. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

333. “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

334. “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

335. “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

336. “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

337. “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

338. “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

339. “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

340. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

344. “Today what we are doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down those antiquated laws and granting banks significant new authority.”

— William J. Clinton

345. “The risk is that as we come out of this recession, we’ll have so much debt to finance, we’ll either have to have inflation or very high interest rates to continue to borrow the money, or both. That’s a risk.”

— William J. Clinton

346. “We have a moral obligation to make sure the people who are being required to work have the opportunity to work. We must make sure the jobs are there.”

— William J. Clinton

347. “It is inconceivable that anyone could say we have tried to hide anything.”

— William J. Clinton

348. “The great thing about this game is that the bad days are wonderful.”

— William J. Clinton

349. “We still have too many Americans who give in to their fears of those who are different from them. Not so long ago, swastikas were painted on the doors of some African-American members of our Special Forces at Ft. Bragg. They are special forces. They do not deserve to have swastikas on their doors.”

— William J. Clinton

350. “It is a $270 billion cut in medicare.”

— William J. Clinton