Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns. But then they really decided that they liked being in the majority for the first time in forty years, and they wanted to get some things done, and I agreed, to get things I wanted. It was all perfectly transparent. Everybody knew what they wanted and what I wanted.

Bill Clinton

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• I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Knows
  • Talking

• I just don't think we think about jurists as rock stars or great thinkers, particularly in the political world.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • World
  • Great
  • Thinking

• This morning I shot six holes in my freezer. I think I've got cabin fever.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Thinking
  • Morning
  • Fever

• For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Soul

• ...as I reject the old time beliefs, it is not a matter of countering belief with belief, rather I can challenge the efficacy of old beliefs with sound arguments. We believe in nature and that human progress depends on the domination of man over nature. There is no conscious power behind it. This is our philosophy.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Men

• The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must err.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • Eye
  • Errors

• I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

  

  Miranda July
  • Life
  • You
  • Easy

• There are two aspects to making movies: One is the feeling of wanting to push myself into stuff that I don't know how to do. Then there's the other impulse to try and earn a living. I want to be careful about not confusing those too much - not that those things can't have a healthy overlap. Plenty of people start out making work that isn't terribly commercial, and then make work that's more commercial but still good. You just want to watch out for that thing where you tell yourself that you're doing your best work when you're not.

  

  Andrew Bujalski
  • Feeling
  • Movies
  • Living

• One of the positives of the Illinois delegation is the congressmen and women work together on issues of local concern in a lot of different ways.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Issues
  • Delegation
  • Congressmen

• I have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • People
  • Public declarations

• Keep the inspiration alive and reach for what you want.

  

  Anamika Mishra
  • Want
  • Inspiration
  • Alive

• I didn't want to come in the movie every so often, every 20 minutes saying, 'Dinner is served, would you like coffee?'

  

  Michael Caine
  • Want
  • Coffee
  • Dinner

• I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write songs about girls, but it's just hard to do right now.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Girl

• I think we should have won the game before halftime.

  

  Vanderlei Luxemburgo
  • Game
  • Won
  • Halftime

• You've got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Lie
  • Halfway

• The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Republicans
  • Democrats
  • Rome

• The Democrats are the senior partners in the ruling class. The Republicans are the junior partners. The reason being that the American ruling class was built by or under the Democratic Party. First, under Woodrow Wilson and then later under Franklin Roosevelt. It was a ruling class that prized above all its intellectual superiority over the ruled. And that saw itself as the natural carriers of scientific knowledge, as the class that was naturally best able to run society and was therefore entitled to run society. The Republican members of the ruling class aspire to that sort of intellectual status or reputation. And they have shared a taste of this ruling class. But they are not part of the same party, and as such, are constantly trying to get closer to the senior partners. As the junior members of the ruling class, they are not nearly as tied to government as the Democrats are. And therefore, their elite prerogatives are not safe.

  

  Angelo Codevilla
  • Senior
  • Republicans
  • Partners

• I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns. But then they really decided that they liked being in the majority for the first time in forty years, and they wanted to get some things done, and I agreed, to get things I wanted. It was all perfectly transparent. Everybody knew what they wanted and what I wanted.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Republicans
  • Government shutdowns