Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

We cannot become the world's policeman, but where our values and our interests are at stake, and where we can make a difference, we must act and we must lead. That is our job and we are better, stronger and safer because we are doing it.

Bill Clinton

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• I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Life
  • Money
  • Know

• Let the tech firms and consulting firms build your skills, but be sure to ask yourself, 'Am I maximizing my impact?' 'Am I living up to my values?'

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Values

• All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Values

• Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • House
  • Leadership
  • Values

• My interests are not really with television, per se.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Television
  • Interests
  • Per

• If you will trust me with your vote, you can count on me to take those values to Washington.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Trust
  • Values
  • Vote

• European values, civil rights, freedom of speech, freedom of informatio,n and freedom of assembly are being violated by Spain's central government.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Freedom
  • Government
  • Values

• There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Work
  • Values
  • Hard Work

• The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Culture
  • Values
  • Duty

• I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Theater

• In the aftermath of September 11, it has been made clear to us that our foreign policy can no longer afford to narrowly focus on short-term benefits. For our nation's long-term security, we must be active in promoting American values abroad through our foreign policy.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Long
  • American
  • Focus

• The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • World
  • Values
  • September

• Quilliam will remain a priority for me because its values shape my beliefs and outlook.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Me
  • Values
  • Priority

• One of women's greatest values is compassion.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Women
  • Compassion
  • Values

• I think there are three main values which are fundamental: that Georgia will never be a criminal country, that Georgia will never return to corruption, and that Georgia will be independent.

  

  Vano Merabishvili
  • Country
  • Think
  • Independent

• From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Culture
  • Values
  • Media

• The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Party
  • Values
  • Republican

• The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Public
  • Interests
  • Chairman

• In practice, without appropriate government intervention, Smith's "invisible hand" dons brass knuckles and conducts gang warfare, creating fierce battles between competitors who would be more than happy to define and enforce their own private property interests according to their own subjective rules.

  

  Denise Caruso
  • Government
  • Practice
  • Rules

• When we truly discover love, capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.

  

  Bill O'Brien
  • Discover
  • Capitalism
  • Marxism

• When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • School
  • War
  • Civil War

• As the book writer for one big smash and one big smelly flop, I always wondered if anyone knows just what goes into making a great musical. When a show is a hit, the critics trip over themselves not knowing who to laud and applaud the loudest. It's that marvelous score, those urbane lyrics, that irreplaceable star. But only when a show is a flop, does anyone notice the book writer. And then it's always our fault.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Star
  • Show
  • Book writer

• It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.

  

  Eugene Ormandy
  • Money
  • Principles
  • Flexible

• We cannot become the world's policeman, but where our values and our interests are at stake, and where we can make a difference, we must act and we must lead. That is our job and we are better, stronger and safer because we are doing it.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Values
  • Interests
  • World's policeman