Top 500 William J. Clinton Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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

352. “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

353. “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

354. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

356. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

358. “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

359. “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

360. “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

361. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

363. “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

364. “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

365. “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

366. “A few months ago, and again this week, bin Laden publicly vowed to publicly wage a terrorist war against America, saying, and I quote, “We do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians. They’re all targets.” Their mission is murder, and their history is bloody.”

— William J. Clinton

367. “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

368. “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

369. “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

370. “We’re not talking about a few rooms here with delicate personal matters involved.”

— William J. Clinton

371. “I want a man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama.”

— William J. Clinton

372. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

374. “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

375. “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

376. “When people think, Democrats win.”

— William J. Clinton

377. “The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all.”

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

379. “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

380. “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

381. “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

382. “Let me be clear: we are still a nation of immigrants, and we honor all those immigrants who are working hard to become new citizens.”

— William J. Clinton

383. “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

384. “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

385. “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

386. “Saddam Hussein didn’t kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he’s still alive.”

— William J. Clinton

387. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

389. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

391. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

393. “I might not have been President if it hadn’t been for school music. Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music programs.”

— William J. Clinton

394. “I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.”

— William J. Clinton

395. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

399. “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

400. “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