Bill Clinton Quotes
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In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.
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I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.
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There is a government within the government who controll this and i do not controll it...
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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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Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service.
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We don't need a constitutional amendment for kids to pray.
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There are times when only America can make the difference between war and peace, between freedom and repression, between life death. We cannot save all the world's children but we can save many of them.
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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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Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.
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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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Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
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We must work tirelessly to make sure that every boy and girl in America who is up for adoption has a family waiting to reach him or her...This is a season of miracles, and perhaps there is no greater miracle than finding a loving home for a child who needs one.
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We simply have to transition from an economy based almost exclusively on oil and coal and natural gas to one that's far more diversified, that uses solar energy, and wind energy, and the power of the tides, and bio-mass energy, and eventually, develops hydrogen.
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Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.
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Drugs nearly killed my brother when he was a young man and I hate them. He fought back. And I'm really proud of him. But I learned something in going through that long nightmare with our family. And I can tell you, something has happened to some of our young people. They simply don't think these drugs are dangerous anymore. Or they think the risk is acceptable.
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I don't think I would have become President if it were not for my school music program.
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The Constitution is a radical document... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights.
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We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership...
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India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.
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There is no longer a clear, bright line dividing America's domestic concerns and America's foreign policy concerns...If we want America to stay on the right track, if we want other people to be on that track and have the chance to enjoy peace and prosperity, we have no choice but to try to lead the train.
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Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music and arts programs. They increase the ability of young people to do math. They increase the ability of young people to read. And most important of all, they're a lot of fun.
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We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.
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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didnot like it, and I didnot inhale, and I never tried again.
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To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value.