Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

When I started out in public life there used to be a saying we'd hear from time to time, that every man who runs for public office will claim that he was born in a log cabin he built with his own hands. Well, my mother knew better. And she made sure I did too.

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• If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Life
  • Lead

• I think some people who go into public life, if they go in needing the applause of thousands, they're never going to work out successfully in the end, because they don't know who they are apart from the crowds.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.

  

  Plato
  • Truth
  • Government
  • Public Life

• I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Think
  • Names
  • Public Life

• You hope people won't be tricky or miserable. If you're in public life, it's important not to be. If someone says, 'I like your programme, thank you,' you should be grateful. I am. Why be nasty?

  

  Alan Titchmarsh
  • Important
  • Miserable
  • Public Life

• What I've learned is that living in public life... it's impossible to have everybody like you. No matter what you do.

  

  Antoni Porowski
  • Matter
  • Learned
  • Public Life

• Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which men are likely to ignore. There is a tremendous field for women as active protagonists of new ideas and new methods of political and social housekeeping. When organized and conscious of their power to influence their surroundings, women can use their newly acquired freedom in a great many ways to mold the world into a better place to live in.

  

  Edward Bernays
  • Freedom
  • Ignore
  • Private Life

• I would rather quit public life at seventy, and quit it forever, than to retain public life at a sacrifice to my own self-respect. I will not vote for any law which will make fair for me and foul for another. The blacklist is the most cruel form of oppression ever devised by man for the infliction of suffering upon his weaker fellows.

  

  Joseph Cannon
  • Suffering
  • Vote
  • Public Life

• Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a person's obligations or opportunities to speak about some topic exceed his knowledge of the facts that are relevant to that topic. This discrepancy is common in public life, where people are frequently impelled-whether by their own propensities or by the demands of others - to speak extensively about matters of which they are to some degree ignorant.

  

  Harry Frankfurt
  • Knowledge
  • Circumstances
  • Public Life

• We need a lot more visibility of queer people in public life. People gotta get used to it.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Public Life
  • VIsibility
  • Queer

• If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Help
  • Politics
  • Public Life

• You have your private life and you have your public life, and just don`t let them interfere.

  

  Heather Matarazzo
  • Private Life
  • Public Life

• We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.

  

  Willa Cather
  • People
  • Littles
  • Land

• The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Idea
  • Thing
  • Dancing

• Regimes like the one in Russia are stabilized by the fact that they have no ideology. There is really no ideological means to attack them.

  

  Ivan Krastev
  • Russia
  • Attack
  • Ideology

• My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Recognize
  • Species

• God's always been here for me the entire time. I just got done praying for the day, and I'm pretty sure that he probably just put me there. I was trying to escape from a bunch of really whack-ass, freaky-deaky people, and I think He was just, 'Hey, I'll do this for you and you can get away from everybody like that for the rest of your life.' So I'm blessed by God for having to endure that kind of incarceration, which is mind-blowing and crazy, but it's obviously helped me get to another chapter in my life which is filled with love and positivity and joy and happiness.

  

  Wes Scantlin Puddle of Mudd
  • Life
  • God
  • Blessed

• Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Littles
  • Loss
  • Heavy

• When I started out in public life there used to be a saying we'd hear from time to time, that every man who runs for public office will claim that he was born in a log cabin he built with his own hands. Well, my mother knew better. And she made sure I did too.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Public Life
  • Public office