Top 500 William J. Clinton Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “When people think, Democrats win.”

— William J. Clinton

352. “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

353. “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

354. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

358. “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

359. “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

360. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

362. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

365. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

368. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

370. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

372. “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

373. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

375. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

378. “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

379. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

384. “The hard fact is that so long as Saddam remains in power, he threatens the well-being of his people, the peace of his region, and the security of the world.”

— William J. Clinton

385. “Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow citizens, this is our time. Let us embrace it.”

— William J. Clinton

386. “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

387. “If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.”

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

390. “41, you look great. Love what you’re doing.”

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

392. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

394. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

396. “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

397. “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

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

400. “You live in the age of interdependence. Borders don’t count for much or stop much, good or bad, anymore.”

— William J. Clinton