Bill Clinton Quotes (330 Quotes)

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

The United States will always honor and never forsake its fallen heroes. We will not abandon their families.

When people talk about me now, I feel like I'm a witness at my own funeral.

The problem of land mines is a global tragedy. In all probability, land mines kill more children than soldiers, and they keep killing after wars are over.

What if he Hussein fails to comply with disarmament and we fail to act He will conclude that the international community has lost its will. He will then go right on building up his arsenal. Someday, someway, I guarantee you, he'll use that arsenal.

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

There is nothing patriotic about hating your country or pretending that you can love your country but despise your government.

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

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've ever worked in a White House, you know damn well it's not background noise. It's affecting everything you do as president.

I sat down and I said 'you know, this AIDS thing doesn't make any sense.' We've got generic AIDS drugs, you've got all this money floating around, why is nobody getting treatment

All of us -- parents, schools, communities and government -- share responsibility to keep kids safe.

The president says donors got nothing they shouldn't. What they get from me, I think, is a respectful hearing if they have some concern about issues, ... I think it's a good thing when contributors care about the country and have some particular area of expertise they want to contribute. But nobody buys a guaranteed result.

We cannot allow them to have a hundred nuclear weapons. We cannot allow a country to, in effect, become the bomb-seller of the world because they're in a snit, and because they can't grow a crop.

Each human life is unique, born of a miracle that reaches beyond laboratory science. Any discovery that touches upon human creation is not simply a matter of scientific inquiry. It is a matter of morality and spirituality as well.

I think he's trying to build goodwill, which is important. Maybe the last few years have bled enough poison out of the system where it will be possible.

In the last energy bill they finally gave a 25 percent tax credit for the purchase of new solar equipment and other clean energy equipment. I tried for three years to pass that as president and could not do so. So I am thrilled that it passed. This will mean that a lot of these products are now far more cost effective and will off a lot sooner than they would before.

The Internet, no matter what political system a country has, and our political system is different from yours, the Internet is having significant political and social consequences and they cannot be erased,

I have apologized to the American people for what I did wrong, and most Americans think I paid a pretty heavy price.

I think that we ought to say in this area that we do not intend to stop working until America is the safest big country in the world,

When people feel uncertain, they'd rather have somebody that's strong and wrong than somebody who's weak and right.

The talks at Camp David were revolutionary in their detail, their directness and their honesty.

we are lazy or dumb.

I may not have been the greatest president, but I've had the most fun eight years.

As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.

My days in this office are nearly through, but my days of service, I hope, are not.

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

. . . All of us who worked to support peace in Northern Ireland owe her our gratitude.

It is very important that we get right back to business and fulfill our responsibility to give our children a world-class education.

The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs Protestants and Catholics Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it between those who look to the future a

We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership

Stigmatization and discrimination is bad in a society, ... The society must discourage prejudice, stigma, embarrassment and fears related on HIVAIDS to patients.

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

I thought it was great.

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

It's California I'm worried about. I don't want you to become a laughingstock, a carnival or the beginning of a circus in America where we just throw people out as soon as they make a tough decision. . . . Don't do this. Don't do this.

We were in a land where there was endless profit. There was no tomorrow ... and now we're suffering a hangover from that binge.

Nothing could be worse than this torment, and I cannot rid myself of it. I have been here all summer in a place where everyone else's children seem to be in the military.

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

You gave me the ride of my life, and I've tried to give as good as I got.

I don't think we should ever give up the right to unilaterally use our military, but I think we should bend over backward to build our world in which we are sharing responsibility and sharing benefits.

In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.

Whatever you wish to do, you are also a citizen.

We have the most religious freedom of any country in the world, including the freedom not to believe.

We could reduce the future that we can build for our children if we respond to the challenges in the wrong way. Whatever we do we have to have a care for the security of our nation, the character of our people and the future of our children. We must respond in a way that is consistent with the larger obligation that we all have to build a more integrated global community.

Their strategy is to talk about compassion. It's a brilliant strategy. It's a pretty package. If they wrap it tight enough, no one will open it before Christmas.

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo your time has come and gone. It's time for change in America.

We should cooperate with others in the fight against terrorism around the world, in whatever ways are appropriate and possible. Because it's a global threat, invulnerability is global.

It might be quite good, because it might be sobering for the country to realize we're in a completely new era.

My concern is to listen to you . . . and learn the best way to spend this money we've got,