William J. Clinton Quotes

• 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.

  William J. Clinton

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Attitude

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• No one can change yesterday, but we can all change tomorrow.

  William J. Clinton

  Yesterday, Tomorrow

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• The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

  William J. Clinton

  Freedom, Presidential, Liberty

  Clinton, William J. (1996). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1594, Best Books on

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

  William J. Clinton

  Future, Helping Others, Making A Difference

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.151, Best Books on

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• I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time - never. These allegations are false.

  William J. Clinton

  Lying, Missing, Allegations

  Clinton, William J. (1999). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998”, p.111, Best Books on

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• When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.

  William J. Clinton

  Strong, Insecure, People

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• Behind every great man there stands a great woman. Behind every great woman is a great behind.

  William J. Clinton

  Men, Behind Every Great Man, Behinds

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• Any president that lies to the American people should have to resign.

  William J. Clinton

  Lying, Should Have, People

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• The problem with any ideology is that it gives you the answer before you examine the evidence.

  William J. Clinton

  Giving, Answers, Problem

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• What you earn depends on what you learn.

  William J. Clinton

  Fortune Cookie, Internet Technology, Information Technology

  "The Political Interest: Job Training Has To Be Reworked" by Michael Kramer, www.cnn.com.

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• We can't afford to lose control of our own borders or to take on new financial burdens at a time when we are not adequately providing for the jobs, the health care and the education of our own people.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, People, Immigration

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• Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.

  William J. Clinton

  Mean, People, Goal

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• Everybody counts, everybody deserves a chance, everybody has a responsible role to play and we all do better when we work together.

  William J. Clinton

  Play, Working Together, Roles

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• It is time to stop personal destruction and prying into private lives

  William J. Clinton

  Stupid, Humorous, Destruction

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• Islam is one of the fastest-growing faiths within America, and America needs to show that we're not anti-Islam. We are for, for people being free and having opportunity everywhere, that... We did that in Bosnia, we did that in Kosovo, we did that in numerous other places in the world.

  William J. Clinton

  Opportunity, America, People

  "A Conversation with Former President Bill Clinton". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. July 7, 2004.

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• You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.

  William J. Clinton

  Pigs, Eagles, Wings

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1187, Best Books on

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• Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it.

  William J. Clinton

  Government, Historical, Ufo

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• Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow.

  William J. Clinton

  Yesterday, Trying, Tomorrow

  William J. Clinton “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1993, Bk. 2, August 1 to December 31, 1993”, Government Printing Office

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• I never thought of political endeavors primarily in terms of power and prestige, and I never thought of economic endeavors primarily in terms of wealth and position.

  William J. Clinton

  Political, Wealth, Prestige

  "Q&A: How Bill Clinton is Changing the World". Interview with Patricia Storace, www.cntraveler.com. August 15, 2007.

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• Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Listening, President

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• Our immigration policy is focussed in four areas: First, strengthening border control; second, protecting American jobs by enforcing laws against illegal immigrants at the workplace; third, deporting criminal and deportable aliens; fourth, giving assistance to states who need it, and denying illegal aliens benefits for public services or welfare.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Law, Giving

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• The Constitution is a radical document... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Rights, Government

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• We [Democrats] have got to be strong. When we look weak in a time where people feel insecure, we lose. when people feel uncertain, they'd rather have somebody who's strong and wrong than somebody who's weak and right.

  William J. Clinton

  Strong, Insecure, People

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• You should have disagreements with your leaders and your colleagues, but if it becomes immediately a question of questioning people's motives, and if immediately you decide that somebody who sees a whole new situation differently than you must be a bad person and somehow twisted inside, we are not going to get very far in forming a more perfect union.

  William J. Clinton

  Should Have, People, Perfect

  William J. Clinton's Dole Lecture at University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, archive.news.ku.edu. May 21, 2004.

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• Think of the great spirits of the last 50 years: Ghandi killed, not by a Pakistani Muslim, but one of his own Hindus, who hated him because he wanted India for the Muslims, the Sikhs, for everybody; Sadat, killed by the organization that Mr. bin Laden's No. 2 heads now, not by an Israeli, but by an Egyptian. My friend Yitzhak Rabin -- after a lifetime defending Israel, killed -- not by a Palestinian terrorist, but an angry Israeli because he wanted to lay down arms and take up peace... Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, Israel, Years

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