Bill Clinton Quotes & Sayings

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. — Bill Clinton

We know we have to face hard truths and take strong steps, but we have not done so; instead, we have drifted. And that drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy, and shaken our confidence. — Bill Clinton

He [Walter Cronkite] was also a profoundly good man. I don't think we should lose sight of that. All those professional gifts emanated from a very good core and that's something that's beyond training. It's who he was. — Bill Clinton

We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more. — Bill Clinton

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all. — Bill Clinton

When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it. I didn't inhale. — Bill Clinton

If you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat. — Bill Clinton

A man is more than the sum of all the things he can do. — Bill Clinton

This is a practical country. we have ideals, we have philosophies. But, the problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence. — Bill Clinton

A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons. — Bill Clinton

His knowledge of war has fed a passion for peace. — Bill Clinton

You can put wings on a pig, but that doesn't make it an eagle. — Bill Clinton

There is nothing wrong in America that can't be fixed with what is right in America. — Bill Clinton

I have been assaulted by cleverness on all fronts. — Bill Clinton

In other words, our constitution was designed by people who were idealistic but not ideological. There's a big difference. You can have a philosophy that tends to be liberal or conservative but still be open to evidence, experience, and argument. That enables people with honest differences to find practical, principled compromise. On the other hand, fervent insistence on an ideology makes evidence, experience, and arguments irrelevant: If you possess the absolute truth, those who disagree are by definition wrong, and evidence of success or failure is irrelevant. There is nothing to learn from the experience of other countries. Respectful arguments are a waste of time. Compromise is weakness. And if your policies fail, you don't abandon them; instead, you double down, asserting that they would have worked if only they had been carried to their logical extreme. — Bill Clinton

The idea that power was an end in itself, rather than a means to provide the security and opportunity necessary for the pursuit of happiness, seemed to him stupid and self-defeating." (about Senator Fulbright) — Bill Clinton

When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old. — Bill Clinton

We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs. — Bill Clinton

Some day we hope to liberate every man on earth from the tendency as old as human history to identify our strength and manhood with the ability to control the lives, limit the chances, and doom the dreams of women and girls. — Bill Clinton

Our job is to live as well and as long as we can, and to help others to do the same. What happens after that and how we are viewed by others is beyond our control. — Bill Clinton

The accomplishments of the women in 'The Counselors' are a testament to the power and promise of the American Dream and are sure to resonate deeply with many young women who have the desire and the ability to make their own unique contributions to this legacy of progress ... Just as the women in this book were empowered by the efforts and example of those who came before them, a new generation will be inspired and encouraged by the spirit and achievements of this remarkable group. — Bill Clinton

We live in a completely interdependent world, which simply means we can not escape each other. How we respond to AIDS depends, in part, on whether we understand this interdependence. It is not someone else's problem. This is everybody's problem. — Bill Clinton

The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists. — Bill Clinton

The antigovernment paradigm blinds us to possibilities that lie outside its ideological litmus tests and prevents us from creating new networks of cooperation that can restore economic growth, bring economic opportunity to more people and places, and increase our ability to lead the world to a better future. — Bill Clinton

They should be impressed by the power of our example, not the example of our power. — Bill Clinton

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. — Bill Clinton

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People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power ... — Bill Clinton

And to the memory of my grandfather, who taught me to look up to people others looked down on, because we're not so different after all — Bill Clinton

Follow the trend lines, not the headlines. — Bill Clinton

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think. — Bill Clinton

I never inhaled. — Bill Clinton

Ach bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable. — Bill Clinton

I did not have sexual relations with that woman — Bill Clinton

Being President is like being the groundskeeper in a cemetery: there are a lot of people under you, but none of them are listening. — Bill Clinton

If one candidate is appealing to your fears, and the other one's appealing to your hopes, you'd better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope! — Bill Clinton

That depends on what your definition of 'is' is. — Bill Clinton

All America loses when any person is denied or forced out of a job because of sexual orientation. Being gay, the last time I thought about it, seemed to have nothing to do with the ability to read a balance book, fix a broken bone, or change a spark plug. — Bill Clinton

He didn't say a word or do an action that did not have a purpose — Bill Clinton

You are carrying the future of America in your heart and your mind. So live your dreams and remember, whatever you choose to do with your life, you must also be a citizen of your country, your n ation, and our interdependent world. Because while our differences make life more fascinating, our common humanity matters more. — Bill Clinton

Obama doesn't know how to be President. He doesn't know how the world works. He's incompetent. He's an amateur! — Bill Clinton

People around the world have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power. — Bill Clinton