Bill Clinton Quotes (330 Quotes)

We are engaged mainly in a struggle for the soul of this new century. Victory for our vision depends upon winning the fight we're in against terrorism, on spreading the benefits, and reducing the burdens of the modern world, on changes in poor nations themselves that will make progress possible, and finally, on developing a global level of consciousness about what our responsibilities to each other are and what our relationships ought to be.

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.

We are gaining ever more awe for the complexity, the beauty, the wonder of God's most divine and sacred gift.

That is, we're into a whole new world with the Internet, and whenever we sort of cross another plateau in our development, there are those who seek to take advantage of it. So this is a replay of things that have happened throughout our history.

She has already been singled out as the Republicans' number one target for defeat next year. You and I both know why. Her courage, her clarity, her ability to connect with people scare her opponents. When 2006 is over, they want Hillary out of the Senate. It's not going to happen -- not if we join together in support of her as she fights for what we believe in.

All Americans, indeed all people throughout the world, owe him what he regarded as the ultimate compliment He was a statesman who sought to build a lasting structure of peace.

If we disagree and I think I'm right, I just go ahead and do what I think is right. And then she tells me, 'I told you so.'

He won't break the stranglehold the special interests have on our elections and the lobbyists have on our government. But I will.

You can't have an emergency plan that works if it only affects middle class people up, and when you tell people to go do something they don't have the means to do, you're going to leave the poor out.

Let us, in short, do the work that is before us, so that when our time here is over, we will all watch the sun go down -- as we all must -- and say truly, we have prepared our children for the dawn.

I have never seen . . . so slippery, so disgusting a candidate.

Any recovery progress achieved this year will be quickly reversed if Sri Lanka returns to civil conflict.

A lot of places can be the wrong place at the wrong time

I did not run for this job just to warm the seat. I desperately want to make a difference.

The violence does not demonstrate that the quest for peace has gone too far -- but that it has not gone far enough. And it points not to the failure of negotiations -- but to the futility of violence and force.

Tonight I come to you as a citizen, returning to you in a role I've played most of my life. I join you here in Boston as a foot soldier in the fight for our future, as we nominate a true New England patriot for president,

In our shock and grief one thing must remain clear, hate and prejudice are not American values. The public outrage in Laramie and all across America today echoes what we heard at the White House Conference on Hate Crimes last year -- there is something we can do about this, Congress needs to pass our tough Hate Crimes Legislation. It can do so even before it adjourns and it should do so.

There's a lot of emergency things that have to be done, and I was glad to hear the president finally say today the situation is unacceptable, because it is.

You know the one thing that's wrong with this country Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.

Rove said, Governor Bush has been very private about this, ... drama lasting weeks and weeks and weeks.

John had a dream of black people as successful and smart and beautiful and heroic, a vision of keeping hope alive by showing black people as faces of hope. He never gave up. He never gave in. He once said 'At the end of the day, we're all just trying to give people hope.' I liked John Johnson. I thought he was a strong and wise, straight forward and kind man.

I wanted the strategy to work, ... Whether it will or not, I don't know. But the only thing I would sacrifice it to is if I thought we were going to lose in Afghanistan.

We must not take our economic strength for granted. That's why it is critical that we continue to pay down the debt -- to keep inflation and interest rates low.

I didn't think much of his claim that his politics represented America's best values. I had been raised not to look down on anyone and not to blame others for my own problems or shortcomings. That's exactly what the 'New Right' message did.

I don't think the Republicans can damage my character. - Bill Clinton, former U.S. President

If you believe in a security strategy -- a strategy of more friends and fewer enemies, a strategy of greater cooperation and a strategy of keeping America better at home as we grow more diverse -- we have to build the minds and hearts to build this kind of world.

Nobody's got a lock on the truth.

Our economic success was not a matter of chance, it was a matter of choice.

We believe the limits of the human condition prevent anyone from having the absolute truth. That's the whole idea of this University, isn't it

It wasn't my finest hour. It wasn't even my finest half hour.