A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
—Bill Clinton
Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a relentless, questioning, hopeful people.
—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
We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Leadership
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
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
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: Pessimism, Excuses
Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Age
Just as war is freedom’s cost, disagreement is freedom’s privilege.
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Freedom
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
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
The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.
—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
Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Helping
The great thing about this game is that the bad days are wonderful.
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Golf
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 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 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
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
Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Independence
Golf is like life in a lot of ways – All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Golf
By lifting the weakest, poorest among us, we lift the rest of us as well.
—Bill Clinton
It’s the economy, stupid.
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Business
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
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
We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.
—Bill Clinton
Topics: Helping
A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military.
—Bill Clinton
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: Politicians, Politics, Government
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
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Jimmy Carter American Head of State
- Hillary Rodham Clinton American Head of State
- Herbert Hoover American Statesman
- Franklin D. Roosevelt American Head of State
- George H. W. Bush American Head of State
- Ronald Reagan American Head of State
- John F. Kennedy American Head of State
- Andrew Jackson American Head of State
- Theodore Roosevelt American Head of State
- Woodrow Wilson American Head of State
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