Bill Clinton Quotes on People (39 Quotes)

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

Our air campaign cannot stop until Mr. Milosevic shows that he is ready to end the nightmare for the people of Kosovo,

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.

You get different and better questions if the people asking the questions represent America and the world, ... Every one of us filters the world through the prism of our own experience. The press corps should look like the country they are reporting to.

I don't know how you have a great country that is a beacon of hope for the world for peace and freedom and democracy if you let a third of any group of people wind up going to prison sometime in their lives.

I think he's got it. The Democrats need candidates whom people can relate to in a personal way, people who understand their lives and their concerns and share their values. And I think that's something Tim can do without even pretending.

If you live in a country where you're never required to take responsibility for yourself, where you never even have to ask whether there's something you should be doing to solve your own problems, then people are kept in a kind of a permanent state o

Today we can declare Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We, the American people, we are the solution.

And so I share an interest in public service. He likes sports. I like sports. He likes people. And I think he's a genuinely good man.

Former adversaries can come together to find common ground in a way that benefits all their people, to let go of the past and embrace the future, to forgive and to reconcile.

Africa's future should be viewed as it is, in the hands of Africans, both the people and their leaders.

. . . the purpose of government is to reign in the rights of the people.

Almost one year after the devastating tsunami struck the coast of Sri Lanka, real progress has been achieved Ninety percent of children are back in school, epidemics have been prevented and transitional shelter has been provided to almost all internally displaced people.

As the crowd burst into chants of U.S.A., U.S.A., ... to helping people rebuild their lives, rebuild their communities ... and then to helping Kosovo and all the countries of the region build a brighter, more prosperous future based on respect for the human rights of all people.

If a president of the United States ever lied to the American People, he should resign.

I hope this trip has helped the American people to see Vietnam in a new way and has encouraged the people of Vietnam to see America in a new way so that we will have a partnership for the future.

I met children who lost their daddies and I met a lot of people who survived. This is the first time they've had a chance to clap their hands and shout and dance. This is a great gift to them.

These people are fighting for their lives and they are fighting for the lives of their children and they are trying to get their act together, ... It would be unconscionable if we don't do something to help.

The global economy is giving more of our own people, and billions around the world, the chance to work and live and raise their families with dignity.

A world without walls is the only sustainable world. . . . If the world is dominated by people who believe that their races, their religions, their ethnic differences are the most important factors, then a huge number of people will perish in this century.

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

You, the American people, have made our passage into the global information age an era of great American renewal.

There are large numbers of people who simply don't have the values and vision necessary to be part of an inter-dependent world. They think their differences -- whether religious, political, tribal or ethnic -- are more important than our common humanity. They believe the truth they have justifies their imposition of that truth on other people, even if it takes them to the death of innocents.

No I disagree with that. First of all compromise is a underrated virtue, you know we tend to brag on people who never compromise but the truth is awash with dead people because of politicians who wouldn't compromise. I think sometimes compromise is the greatest virtue.

They see a country which of course will defend our security, but a country which also cares deeply about suffering people, regardless of their religion.

No one wants to get this matter behind us more than I do, except maybe all the rest of the American people. I am looking forward to the opportunity, in the next few days, of testifying. I will do so completely and truthfully.

Recovery is going to take years. Fifty thousand people are still living in tents. I hope you will think of them.

There may come a time when we elect a president at age 45 or 50, and then 20 years later the country comes up against the same kind of problems the president faced before. People would like to bring that man or woman back but they would have no way to do so.

Sometimes I think I have no idea how I got to be president, and I am sure the people who oppose me don't either.

Despite the government's attempts to manipulate the vote, it does seem clear that the people have voted for change.

When people are at war, they measure progress by counting victims. But in peace, it is more difficult to measure progress,

I worry about all these grand ideas we promote here benefiting ordinary people. If they don't perceive that these grand ideas work in their lives, they won't develop a higher consciousness of the issues at stake.

I loved living in the White House. But I never thought I could do that for life. The thing I miss most -- is the work and the people that I worked with and saw. But I actually like this part of my life -- I like having my life back.

But both of us came out of environments with a disproportionate number of poor people.

I think that, in a larger sense, there are millions of people all across America that are the children of Martin and Coretta King, whose whole lives were shaped by their passion for people, opportunity and justice, and their commitment to nonviolent change and by not being discouraged in the face of repeated disappointment.

I do not believe that the politics of personal destruction is what the American people are interested in

He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can't let go of the hatred of their enemies they risk sowing the seeds of hate among themselves.

The American people are concerned, and rightfully so. Americans should never have to worry that their employers are looking at the medicines they take, or the ailments they've had.

The other thing we have to do is to take seriously the role in this problem of . . . older men who prey on underage women. . . . There are consequences to decisions and . . . one way or another, people always wind up being held accountable.