Quotes from William J. Clinton

Most of the major mistakes I made in my life, I made when I was too tired to know what I was doing - both personally and professionally.

Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.

When I was a younger man and had a life, I owned an El Camino pickup in the '70s. It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had Astroturf in the back.

Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.

If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.

It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing.

I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.

That's what she [Hillary Clinton] is done with everything all her life. She just makes something good happen, and that's what you need.

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.

What you earn depends on what you learn.

Technology really has turned out to be a wonderful thing. . . . So Americans really are tuning in in positive ways on the Internet.

Sharing in God's blessings is at the heart of Thanksgiving and at the core of the American spirit.

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.

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.

Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.

It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it.

Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.

When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.

In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.

You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. ... You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything.