Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Bill Clinton (American Head of State)

Bill Clinton (b.1946,) fully William Jefferson Clinton, originally William Jefferson Blythe III, is an American Democratic political leader. As 42nd president of the United States 1993–2001, he oversaw the country’s longest peacetime economic expansion.

Born in Hope, Arkansas, Clinton studied at Georgetown University, spent two years at University College-Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, and studied law at Yale. There he met and married Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton.

Clinton then taught law at the University of Arkansas, served as state attorney-general, and became the governor of Arkansas. At age 32, he was the youngest person ever to hold the office. After an eventful two-year term as governor, Clinton failed in his reelection bid in 1980. He regained the governor’s office in 1982 and served until 1992 when he became president.

Clinton’s two terms in office were successful: he oversaw the booming economy, balanced the federal budget, initiated welfare reforms, and reduced crime. He reached several momentous agreements in foreign affairs, including movement toward peace in the Middle East and Northern Ireland. Notwithstanding its successes, Clinton’s presidency was dogged by constant allegations of impropriety. In 1999, he was impeached on counts of perjury and obstruction of justice for lying about his sexual relationship with a young White House intern but was found not guilty by the Senate.

Post presidency, Clinton became a well-paid public speaker and raised funds for his foundation, and for victims of the 2004 Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. His writings include the autobiography My Life (2004,) Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World (2007,) and Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy (2011.) Clinton co-wrote the thriller The President is Missing (2018.)

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We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Leadership

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
Topics: Patriotism

Our military superiority is so great — it’s far greater than it was in the Gulf War, and the Gulf War was over in 100 hours after we bombed for 43 days… Now they can bomb for a couple of days and then just roll into Baghdad… The odds are there’s going to be a war and it’s going to be not for very long.
—Bill Clinton

Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II’s slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas—to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Choice

By lifting the weakest, poorest among us, we lift the rest of us as well.
—Bill Clinton

Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service…
—Bill Clinton

I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Unemployment

It’s the economy, stupid.
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Business

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year’s one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Government, Politicians, Politics

Other countries possess weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. With Saddam, there is one big difference: He has used them…The international community had little doubt then, and I have no doubt today, that left unchecked Saddam Hussein will use these terrible weapons again
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Weapon

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.
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Greed

Just as war is freedom’s cost, disagreement is freedom’s privilege.
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Freedom

Golf is like life in a lot of ways – All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Golf

And so a lot of people say there’s too much personal freedom. 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 a weapons sweep and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities.
—Bill Clinton

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we’d have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Government

The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past time for us to take action to correct these problems.
—Bill Clinton

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… .
—Bill Clinton

This has been a time of dramatic transformation, and you have risen to every new challenge
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Challenges

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Excuses, Pessimism

I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives…the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our nation.
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Americans

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
Topics: Peace

When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old.
—Bill Clinton
Topics: General, Memories

First, I worry about climate change. It’s the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we know it, and make a lot of the other efforts that we’re making irrelevant and impossible
—Bill Clinton

I want people like some of you in this audience to be part of a Clinton administration, not because or in spite of your sexual orientation, but because America needs you
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Audiences

The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.
—Bill Clinton

I ask you to join in a re-United States. We need to empower our people so they can take more responsibility for their own lives in a world that is ever smaller, where everyone counts. We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream will continue to wither. Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American.
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Attachment

The great thing about this game is that the bad days are wonderful.
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Golf

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.
—Bill Clinton

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Independence

We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Helping

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