Bill Clinton quotes

Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow. (Bill Clinton)
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
Bill Clinton
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.
Bill Clinton
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
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
Bill Clinton
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.
Bill Clinton
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.
Bill Clinton
What are the needs of the world? What can I do that won't be done if I don't do it?
Bill Clinton
A few years ago, (Barack Obama) would have been getting us coffee.
Bill Clinton
I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can't be judged only by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes only response to pain.
Bill Clinton
We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs. (Bill Clinton)
Hillary will make us stronger together. You know it because she's spent a lifetime doing it.
Bill Clinton
Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they came yesterday or walked this land a thousand years ago our great challenge for the 21st century is to find a way to be One America. We can meet all the other challenges if we can go forward as One America.
Bill Clinton
When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two -- and didn't like it -- and didn't inhale and never tried inhaling again.
Bill Clinton
When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.
Bill Clinton
I married my best friend. I was still in awe after more than four years of being around her at how smart and strong and loving and caring she was. And I really hoped that her choosing me and rejecting my advice to pursue her own career was a decision she would never regret.
Bill Clinton
The last time I checked, the Constitution said, 'of the people, by the people and for the people.' That's what the Declaration of Independence says.
Bill Clinton
We want to live forever, and we're getting there.
Bill Clinton
You should have disagreements with your leaders and your colleagues, but if it becomes immediately a question of questioning people's motives, and if immediately you decide that somebody who sees a whole new situation differently than you must be a bad person and somehow twisted inside, we are not going to get very far in forming a more perfect union.
Bill Clinton
There's never a perfect bipartisan bill in the eyes of a partisan.
Bill Clinton
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth. (Bill Clinton)
Shakespeare wrote, Einstein thought, Ataturk built.
Bill Clinton
If ever there comes a time when everyone you vote for wins and they do everything you think they should do, there will still be a gap between what is and what ought to be.
Bill Clinton
Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening.
Bill Clinton
I am grateful that they have worked together to make it safer and stronger to build a world with more partners and fewer enemies. I'm grateful for the relationship of respect and partnership she and the president have enjoyed. And the signal that sends to the rest of the world, that democracy does not have a -- have to be a blood sport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.
Bill Clinton