Top 100 William J. Clinton Quotes
#1. Nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up.
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#3. The economy has produced 6.1 million jobs since I became president, and if Michael Jordan comes back to the Bulls, it will be 6,100,001 jobs.
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#4. 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.
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#5. You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.
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#6. India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.
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#7. I am committed to curbing the influence of money in our political system.
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#8. I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.
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#10. Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.
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#11. If you win elections on the theory that government is always bad and will mess up a two-car parade ... a real change-maker represents a real threat. So your only option is to create a cartoon, a cartoon alternative, then run against the cartoon. Cartoons are two-dimensional; they're easy to absorb.
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#12. I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.
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#13. Americans long to be united. After 9/11, we all just wanted to be one nation. Not a single American on September the 12, 2001, cared who won the next presidential election.
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#14. I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow.
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#15. If President Reagan could be an actor and become president, maybe I could become an actor. I've got a good pension. I can work for cheap.
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#16. I think the idea of moving to a cleaner energy future and doing more energy efficiency makes smart sense.
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#17. Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
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#18. If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.
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#19. When I was a younger man and had a life, I owned an El Camino pickup in the '70s. It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had Astroturf in the back.
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#20. After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This formal acknowledgment comes far too late but still we must all welcome it. It can be the beginning of clearing the air.
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#21. We must work tirelessly to make sure that every boy and girl in America who is up for adoption has a family waiting to reach him or her ... This is a season of miracles, and perhaps there is no greater miracle than finding a loving home for a child who needs one.
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#22. I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism abroad with the loss of the American dream at home.
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#23. Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.
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#24. Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.
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#26. If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.
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#28. Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the United States. And the more disease there is, the more political unrest there will be, leading to more Darfurs, which the U.S. will have to pay to fix.
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#29. I have said many times-if I hadn't been exposed to music as a child I don't think I would have been president.
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#30. History will remember Nelson Mandela as a
champion for human dignity and freedom, for
peace and reconciliation
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#32. You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity.
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#34. Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow citizens, this is our time. Let us embrace it.
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#35. I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system.
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#37. Only astrophysicists new about the Internet 20 years ago. Today my cat has a website.
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#38. Some people say well we need a change. Hillary Clinton is been around a long, she sure has, and she's sure been worth every single year she's put into making people's lives better.
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#39. I married my best friend. I was still in awe after more than four years of being around her at how smart and strong and loving and caring she was. And I really hoped that her choosing me and rejecting my advice to pursue her own career was a decision she would never regret.
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#40. Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow.
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#41. I regret to say that my hand did, in fact, have an improper relationship with Chelsea Clinton. The incident represents a profound lapse of judgment for which my hand takes sole responsibility.
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#43. We should scrub all of our federal regulations to find responsible ways to make life easier to small businesses, i want to be a small business president.
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#44. The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!
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#45. My fellow Americans, we can only build our bridge to the 21st century if we build it together, and if we're willing to walk arm-in-arm across that bridge together.
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#46. For too long we've been told about 'us' and 'them.' Each and every election we see a new slate of arguments and ads telling us that 'they' are the problem, not 'us.' But there can be no 'them' in America. There's only us.
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#47. The Constitution is a radical document ... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights.
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#48. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps
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#49. [Illegal immigration] costs the taxpayers of the United States a lot of money. And it's unfair to Americans who are working every day to pay their own bills. It's also unfair to a lot of people who have waited in line for years and years in other countries to be legal immigrants.
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#50. Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.
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#52. The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.
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#54. A great democracy doesn't make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.
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#55. [George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.
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#56. I challenge every business person in America who has ever complained about the failure of the welfare system to try to hire somebody off welfare. And try hard.
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#58. I love and revere the rich and proud history of America. And I am determined to take our best traditions into the future. But with all respect, we do not need to build a bridge to the past. We need to build a bridge to the future.
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#59. We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love.
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#60. We are on the right track to the 21st century. We are on the right track, but our work is not finished. What should we do? First, let us consider how to proceed. I say the question is no longer, "Who's to blame?" but "What to do?"
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#61. I don't know in my long life that I ever worked with anybody that has quite the combination of policy knowledge and concern, political skills, of a personal touch with people, and a sense of innate fairness that inspires confidence.
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#62. In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation ...
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#63. Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.
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#64. If you think the President was right to open the doors of American opportunity to young immigrants brought here as children who want to go to college or serve in the military, you should vote for Barack Obama.
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#65. The great thing about this game is that the bad days are wonderful.
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#66. Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.
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#67. And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.
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#69. Do you think I'd be stupid enough to go running with someone I was foolin' with?
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#72. Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values.
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#73. I think what breaks people is not adversity; what breaks people is thinking that tomorrow is going to be just like yesterday. That's what's numbing - if you think you can't change, you can't be better. And I didn't like that.
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#74. There's this whole problem of trafficking, which has gotten worse in the economic downturn, which disproportionately affects young women, but also affects some young men who are sold into bondage, into basically servitude for indebted work that they can often never escape from.
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#75. I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most ... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.
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#76. I take full responsability ... for what we did. It was the right thing to do.
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#77. I'm proud to say that there is not a single Russian nuclear missile pointed at an American child.
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#78. In general I saw my job as the first president whose full term would be served after the Cold War in a global information society where we were interdependent but not integrated. And therefore, we were vulnerable to the worst, and able to seize the best, of what's going on in the world.
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#79. Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.
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#81. I believe that this country's policies should be heavily biased in favor of nondiscrimination.
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#82. We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.
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#83. There is a government within the government who controll this and i do not controll it
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#84. Our country [America] is still the strongest force for peace and freedom on earth.
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#85. Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
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#86. Music is about communication, creativity, and cooperation, and by studying music in schools, students have the opportunity to build on these skills, enrich their lives, and experience the world from a new perspective.
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#87. The struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation's character.
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#88. Cooperation will save the future. And America should lead it. Every time humanity has been in danger of extinguishing itself, our consciousness and our conscience have led us to come together. That's the big issue of the 21st century.
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#91. Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.
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#92. Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.
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#93. Let us 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.
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#95. The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.
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#96. I like the vegetables, the fruits, the beans, the stuff I eat now ... All my blood tests are good, and my vital signs are good, and I feel good, and I also have, believe it or not, more energy.
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#97. The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which highlights customer satisfaction, workforce empowerment, and increased productivity, has come to symbolize America's commitment to excellence.
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#98. If you want to be forgiven, you have to extend forgiveness, even to people who aren't smart enough to ask for it.
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#99. If you look at how many thousands and thousands of pages, Web pages, are being added to the Internet every day, it's the fastest growing organism in human history for communications.
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