Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

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

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• It's better to do a film that works.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Film
  • Better
  • Works

• I am not honest.

  

  Larry David
  • Honest

• As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.

  

  Karen Mills
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Great
  • Different
  • Car

• Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Fear
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.

  

  Inara George
  • Sales
  • Masses
  • Overlooked

• My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Time
  • Work
  • Help

• I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Me
  • Day
  • Learning

• Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Important
  • Car
  • Design

• A lot of productivity is capturing ideas. I use a wiki - it's more valuable than e-mail for running a company - and I have a page for every person with whom I interact frequently.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • Running
  • Ideas
  • Company

• Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Work
  • Human
  • Brand

• It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Why
  • Together
  • Movie

• The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.

  

  Gabriel Heatter
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Why
  • Think
  • Attention

• I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Think
  • Tea

• Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Diversity
  • Europe
  • Itself

• Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • War
  • Constitution
  • Congress

• I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.

  

  Lisa Marie Presley
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Today

• We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the consequences of actions.

  

  Al-Jahiz
  • Intelligent
  • Mankind
  • Blacks

• For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.

  

  Louis Adolphe Thiers
  • Government
  • Firsts
  • Newspapers

• We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the world and its demands...Thus it is hard for us to understand the political relevance of friendship...But for the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse...The converse (in contrast to the intimate talk in which individuals speak about themselves), permeated though it may be by pleasure in the friend’s presence, is concerned with the common world.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Friendship
  • Phenomenon
  • Demands

• 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
  • History
  • Government
  • Problems