Bill Clinton Quotes

#1. I did not have sexual relations with that woman

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#2. That depends on what your definition of 'is' is.

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#3. The idea that power was an end in itself, rather than a means to provide the security and opportunity necessary for the pursuit of happiness, seemed to him stupid and self-defeating." (about Senator Fulbright)

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#4. His knowledge of war has fed a passion for peace.

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#5. We know we have to face hard truths and take strong steps, but we have not done so; instead, we have drifted. And that drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy, and shaken our confidence.

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#6. There is nothing wrong in America that can't be fixed with what is right in America.

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#7. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

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#8. When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it. I didn't inhale.

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#9. I have been assaulted by cleverness on all fronts.

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#10. 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.

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#11. And to the memory of my grandfather, who taught me to look up to people others looked down on, because we're not so different after all

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#12. Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

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

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#14. When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.

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#15. They should be impressed by the power of our example, not the example of our power.

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#16. Obama doesn't know how to be President. He doesn't know how the world works. He's incompetent. He's an amateur!

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#17. You can put wings on a pig, but that doesn't make it an eagle.

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#18. A man is more than the sum of all the things he can do.

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#19. 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.

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#20. This is a practical country. we have ideals, we have philosophies. But, the problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence.

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#21. Some day we hope to liberate every man on earth from the tendency as old as human history to identify our strength and manhood with the ability to control the lives, limit the chances, and doom the dreams of women and girls.

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#22. I never inhaled.

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#23. 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!

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#24. From Bill Clinton speech-
People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power ...

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#25. Our job is to live as well and as long as we can, and to help others to do the same. What happens after that and how we are viewed by others is beyond our control.

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#26. He didn't say a word or do an action that did not have a purpose

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#27. He [Walter Cronkite] was also a profoundly good man. I don't think we should lose sight of that. All those professional gifts emanated from a very good core and that's something that's beyond training. It's who he was.

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#28. We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.

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#29. Ach bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable.

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#30. A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.

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#31. Follow the trend lines, not the headlines.

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#32. Being President is like being the groundskeeper in a cemetery: there are a lot of people under you, but none of them are listening.

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#33. If you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat.

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#34. We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.

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#35. People around the world have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.

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#36. 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.

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