Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

When you're a former president, you have much less power, but you have a lifetime of experience and contacts and if you've got the energy, you can bring influence to bear on a small but still fairly substantial number of things where you can concentrate on it because you don't have to change the subject when you wake up in the morning and there's something else in the newspaper.

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• When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Politics
  • First
  • Selling

• It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Important
  • Successful
  • First

• The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Decisions
  • Tools
  • Data

• Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Social

• We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Support
  • Human
  • Human Rights

• I did a movie called 'Quicksand No Escape' with Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson. I think I was maybe 5. I was really little. Yeah, it was fun. And actually, Felicity Huffman played my mom.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Think

• Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Opportunities
  • Connections

• If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Change
  • Living
  • Grow

• War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Great
  • War
  • Democracy

• Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Long
  • Sometimes
  • Blow

• I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Control
  • Write
  • Over

• I never limit myself when it comes to telling stories; I think people can see that in my body of work. It's just about, 'What's a great story? Is it unique? Is it a challenge?'

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can't sign 'Joe Kennedy.' So, back in 1957, I stuck the X on my name to be different from those people in Hyannis Port.

  

  X. J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• Tell her the joyous Time will not be staid, Unlesse she doe him by the forelock take.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Time
  • She

• A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

  

  Karl Marx

• My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady...

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Humble

• Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • God
  • Believe
  • Reality

• Parisians won't admit that they go to the gym, let alone that they're scared of terrorists.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • Alone
  • Gym

• One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Great
  • City
  • Acceptance

• We grew up on Scorsese and Coppola and '70s crime thrillers.

  

  Joe Russo
  • Up

• I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Work
  • Power
  • Dirty

• The problem is that too often the only people who can act don’t want change. Power doesn’t so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • People
  • Power

• When you're a former president, you have much less power, but you have a lifetime of experience and contacts and if you've got the energy, you can bring influence to bear on a small but still fairly substantial number of things where you can concentrate on it because you don't have to change the subject when you wake up in the morning and there's something else in the newspaper.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Former president