Bill Clinton Quotes: Famous Sayings Of The 42nd President Of US
Bill Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States of America who served in office from January 20, 1993 to January 20, 2001. Learn about the man, his leadership and his presidency from his famous quotes.
The list of Bill Clinton Quotes provides a unique insight of his personality and his presidency.
Bill Clinton Quotes
1. “We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.”
― Bill Clinton
2. People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power...”
― Bill Clinton
3. “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.”
― Bill Clinton
4. “When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.”
― Bill Clinton
5. “I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can’t be judged by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements can make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes the only response to pain.
Perhaps most important, I learned that everyone has a story – of dreams and nightmares, hope and heartache, love and loss, courage and fear, sacrifice and selfishness. All my life I’ve been interested in other people’s stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them. When I grew up into politics, I always felt the main point of my work was to people a chance to have better stories. - Page 15, Paragraph 5, ‘My Life’ by Bill Clinton. –Hard cover version-”
― Bill Clinton, My Life
6. “If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.”
― Bill Clinton
7. “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 and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.”
― Bill Clinton
8. “Being President is like being the groundskeeper in a cemetery: there are a lot of people under you, but none of them are listening.”
― Bill Clinton
9. “We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.”
― Bill Clinton
10. “All America loses when any person is denied or forced out of a job because of sexual orientation. Being gay, the last time I thought about it, seemed to have nothing to do with the ability to read a balance book, fix a broken bone, or change a spark plug.”
― Bill Clinton
11. “People around the world have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.”
― Bill Clinton
12. “If you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat.”
― Bill Clinton, My Life
13. “A man is more than the sum of all the things he can do.”
― Bill Clinton, My Life
14. “In other words, our constitution was designed by people who were idealistic but not ideological. There's a big difference. You can have a philosophy that tends to be liberal or conservative but still be open to evidence, experience, and argument. That enables people with honest differences to find practical, principled compromise. On the other hand, fervent insistence on an ideology makes evidence, experience, and arguments irrelevant: If you possess the absolute truth, those who disagree are by definition wrong, and evidence of success or failure is irrelevant. There is nothing to learn from the experience of other countries. Respectful arguments are a waste of time. Compromise is weakness. And if your policies fail, you don't abandon them; instead, you double down, asserting that they would have worked if only they had been carried to their logical extreme.”
― Bill Clinton, Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy
15. “We live in a completely interdependent world, which simply means we can not escape each other. How we respond to AIDS depends, in part, on whether we understand this interdependence. It is not someone else's problem. This is everybody's problem.”
― Bill Clinton
16. “I did not have sexual relations with that woman”
― Bill Clinton
17. “They should be impressed by the power of our example, not the example of our power.”
― Bill Clinton
18. “You can put wings on a pig, but that doesn't make it an eagle.”
― Bill Clinton
19. “If one candidate is appealing to your fears, and the other one's appealing to your hopes, you’d better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope!”
― Bill Clinton
20. “We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more."
- Bill Clinton”
― Bill Clinton
21. “..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable.”
― Bill Clinton
22. “If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person.”
― Bill Clinton
23. “When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old.”
― Bill Clinton
24. “Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.”
― Bill Clinton
25. “Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.”
― Bill Clinton
26. “When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it. I didn't inhale.”
― Bill Clinton
27. “He didn't say a word or do an action that did not have a purpose”
― Bill Clinton
28. “Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.”
― Bill Clinton
29. “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.”
― Bill Clinton
30. “That depends on what your definition of 'is' is.”
― Bill Clinton
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