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

352. “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

353. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

355. “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

356. “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

357. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

359. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

361. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

363. “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

364. “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

365. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

368. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

371. “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

372. “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

373. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

375. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

377. “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

378. “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

379. “When people think, Democrats win.”

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

382. “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

383. “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

384. “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

385. “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

386. “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

387. “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

388. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

390. “You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any other country in the world. You vote for me and I’ll give you family values.”

— William J. Clinton

391. “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

392. “It simply doesn’t make any sense for us to have illegal aliens in our custody in our courts and then let them go back to living here illegally. That’s wrong and we should stop it.”

— William J. Clinton

393. “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

394. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

398. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton