Bill Clinton Quotes
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We United States are the only military superpower. We have no idea how long this is going to last, so we ought to get every bad guy we can and fix every problem we can.
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I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully AND testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.
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Some people say well we need a change. Hillary Clinton is been around a long, she sure has, and she's sure been worth every single year she's put into making people's lives better.
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Let's adopt some short-term strategies to get growth going and then let's have a long-term debt reduction package. That's what I think we should do and I think it will work.
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I think we need to push harder, we the Democrats, because it's an open door for the Republicans - prosperity centers.
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In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago...
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You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any other country in the world. You vote for me and I'll give you family values.
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I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.
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Terrorists are as big a threat to our future, perhaps bigger, than organized crime.
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I don't know in my long life that I ever worked with anybody that has quite the combination of policy knowledge and concern, political skills, of a personal touch with people, and a sense of innate fairness that inspires confidence.
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We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership...
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The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.
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So we, Democrats, have a responsibility there, every one of us, both to try to treat the Republicans with respect and as human beings to try to work with them on every issue we can, and then if those cannons are fired at us, we've got to stand up and fight back. If you lay down and you look like a deer caught in the headlights, then you will confirm the assault. And so we have to fight back.
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If you take advantage of the fact that technology abolishes distance, then you won't need to go to India. Just go to Indiana.
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We Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think "we're all in this together" is a better philosophy than "you're on your own."
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If we have the right preventive and primary care, if we start charging for comprehensive care in the chronic cases, 10 percent of the cases take up two-thirds of the medical expenses, and if we do more on problems like childhood obesity, that we can, to use the parlance that's popular in Washington, bend the cost curve and eventually reconcile this so our costs will be closer to our competitors and so we can cover everybody.
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Music can give you your dreams. It will teach you hard work, it will break your heart and make you so happy, you can't stand it. . . .I don't think I'd have been president if it hadn't been for music.
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Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.
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Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic.
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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.
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More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.
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I've been in politics long enough to expect criticism and hostility. But I was unprepared for the hatred I get from Christians. Why do Christians hate so much?.
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Health care's complicated, can be misrepresented, it's personal, it can spark fear, it's expensive, and the people who have got the money want to keep it.
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Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.