Bill Clinton Quotes on Time (25 Quotes)

Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless

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

I've reached an age now where it doesn't matter whatever happens to me. I just don't want anyone to die before their time. I've asked you here because I think all of us have an unprecedented power to solve problems, save lives and help people see the future.

I have done nothing but try to finish the story of my life, ... It was hard enough to live it the first time. It's been awful the second time. And I can't go anywhere. So I feel like I got a long prison sentence and I got furloughed tonight to come see you guys and listen to music.

This has been a time of dramatic transformation, and you have risen to every new challenge.

I've known about this for a long time. He told me about it quite a few years ago.

Your time is up. Leave now or we will force you from power.

There has never been a time like this, in which we have the power to create knowledge and the power to create havoc, and both these powers rest in the same hands.

I think we all ought to be questioning all the time and learning and growing. And I think that's what we need, but it's not my deal, I don't think.

Remember, we won this state the last two times. They just didn't count them the last time. We can win it again. Let's go for it three in a row.

The advocates for either side are under enormous pressure, and, of course, they're being pretty snippy with each other from time to time.

California has become the first American state where there is no majority race, and we're doing just fine. If you look around the room, you can see a microcosm of what we can do in the world. . . . You should be hopeful on balance about the future. But it's like any future since the beginning of time -- you're going to have to make it.

By the time it became obvious that they were in the fix they were in, there were a lot of other problems, too.

I was writing my book, so I had the tournament on all the time, ... You guys did well in the tournament -- really, really well.

If the issue is, is it a near certainty that at some time in the future there will some group, probably a terrorist group, that attempts to bring to bear either the use or the threat of a chemical or biological operation, I would say that is highly likely to happen sometime in the next few years.

Nobody else should die over this. And you shouldn't blame a whole country, a whole continent for what I believe was a mistake probably more of ignorance even than callousness. I don't mind Muslims all over the world being upset about this I don't mind the demonstrations, but this is not the time to burn bridges, it is the time to build them. This is an enormous opportunity because I can tell you that most people who are not Muslims are horrified that this misunderstanding has occurred, and don't want violence to come out of this, but want greater understanding.

We have had the most unbelievable relationship over a very long period of time.

I would have much preferred being president during World War II. I'm a person out of my time.

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.

You give me 300, 400 billion dollars a year, I'll show you a good time, too.

I like the job. . . . The bad days are part of it. I didn't run to have a pleasant time, I ran to have the chance to change the country, and if the bad days come with it -- that's a part of life, and it's humbling and educational. It keeps you in your place.

We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.

That's why you develop a brain, so you can think about more than one thing at a time.

Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes, but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.

He looked up with a big smile, a wave and shook his head as if to say, 'Not this time, I'll pass.' But he did respond. It was kind of fun.