Bill Clinton Quotes on Business & Commerce (7 Quotes)

There's a lot of evidence you can sell people on tax increases if they think it's an investment

Moulton's boss in 1999-2000 was one of the Clinton administration's most politically astute economists Under Secretary of Commerce Rob Shapiro, a pioneer New Democrat ... Did you cook the books

If you look at what we did in our library -- we reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 34 percent, we reduced our electric bill by 34 percent, with more efficient lighting, more efficient heating, all kinds of conservation measures. We have over 300 solar panels which were made in America. So instead of sending money to Saudi Arabia or someplace else for oil we sent the money to an American manufacturing company to hire Americans to make solar panels. So it is good business.

Turning away from trade would keep part of our global community forever on the bottom.

New information and communications technologies can improve the quality of life for people with disabilities, but only if such technologies are designed from the beginning so that everyone can use them. Given the explosive growth in the use of the World Wide Web for publishing, electronic commerce, lifelong learning and the delivery of government services, it is vital that the Web be accessible to everyone.

It's boring to set up systems. But nothing works without them. That is the business of politics.

I think it's very important that Americans understand... tax cuts are always popular, but about half of these tax cuts since 2001 have gone to people in my income group, the top 1 percent. I've gotten four tax cuts. They're responsible for this big structural deficit, and they're not going away, the deficits aren't.