Top 500 William J. Clinton Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

353. “At the dawn of the 21st century, a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the Information Age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and yes, to form a more perfect union.”

— William J. Clinton

354. “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

355. “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

356. “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

357. “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

358. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

360. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

363. “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

364. “When people think, Democrats win.”

— William J. Clinton

365. “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

366. “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

367. “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

368. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

370. “All of us in our administration worked hard to support families in raising their children and succeeding at work.”

— William J. Clinton

371. “Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That’s true.”

— William J. Clinton

372. “Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity.”

— William J. Clinton

373. “We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we’re not the biggest power on the block.”

— William J. Clinton

374. “The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.”

— William J. Clinton

375. “I experimented with marijuana a time or two.”

— William J. Clinton

376. “41, you look great. Love what you’re doing.”

— William J. Clinton

377. “A great democracy doesn’t make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.”

— William J. Clinton

378. “I’m Bill Clinton and I think you deserve a change. That’s why I’ve offered a plan to get the economy moving again, starting with a middle-class tax cut...”

— William J. Clinton

379. “Don’t you ever forget that in the end, our future is tied to people.”

— William J. Clinton

380. “AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it’s up to the politicians to create the “comprehensive strategies” to better treat the disease.”

— William J. Clinton

381. “I think the idea of moving to a cleaner energy future and doing more energy efficiency makes smart sense.”

— William J. Clinton

382. “In our efforts to battle terrorism and cyber attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive. We must protect our people from danger and keep America safe and free.”

— William J. Clinton

383. “We’ve had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington’s second term, when it was obvious that he would be the first and only consensus president.”

— William J. Clinton

384. “I always get nervous when people start talking about legacies.”

— William J. Clinton

385. “So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.”

— William J. Clinton

386. “Sure enough at Oxford, I was another Yank half a step behind.”

— William J. Clinton

387. “What are the needs of the world? What can I do that won’t be done if I don’t do it?”

— William J. Clinton

388. “In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago.”

— William J. Clinton

389. “Nothing in our lifetimes has been more heartening than when people of the former Soviet Union and Central Europe broke the grip of communism. We have aided their progress and I am proud of it.”

— William J. Clinton

390. “There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government.”

— William J. Clinton

391. “You know, I’ve always been really interested in this stuff, and I’m going to read this.”

— William J. Clinton

392. “It is time to stop personal destruction and prying into private lives.”

— William J. Clinton

393. “NASA even sent Chuck Berry’s music on a space probe searching for intelligent life in outer space. Well, now, if they’re out there, they’re duck walking.”

— William J. Clinton

394. “If you look at how many thousands and thousands of pages, Web pages, are being added to the Internet every day, it’s the fastest growing organism in human history for communications.”

— William J. Clinton

395. “I issued a number of denials to people I thought needed to hear them.”

— William J. Clinton

396. “If you believe in a security strategy – a strategy of more friends and fewer enemies, a strategy of greater cooperation and a strategy of keeping America better at home as we grow more diverse – we have to build the minds and hearts to build this kind of world.”

— William J. Clinton

397. “If we were being attached by space aliens, we wouldn’t be playing these kinds of games.”

— William J. Clinton

398. “I think we need to push harder, we the Democrats, because it’s an open door for the Republicans – prosperity centers.”

— William J. Clinton

399. “President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself.”

— William J. Clinton

400. “You can’t blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity.”

— William J. Clinton