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Quotes from 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
Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.
~ 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
Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.
~ Bill Clinton
In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . .
~ Bill Clinton
We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership.
~ Bill Clinton
Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.
~ Bill Clinton
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...
~ Bill Clinton
The great thing about this game is that the bad days are wonderful.
~ Bill Clinton
This has been a time of dramatic transformation, and you have risen to every new challenge
~ Bill Clinton
Our military superiority is so great — it's far greater than it was in the Gulf War, and the Gulf War was over in 100 hours after we bombed for 43 days… Now they can bomb for a couple of days and then just roll into Baghdad… The odds are there's going to be a war and it's going to be not for very long.
~ Bill Clinton
A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military.
~ Bill Clinton
First, I worry about climate change. It's the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we know it, and make a lot of the other efforts that we're making irrelevant and impossible
~ Bill Clinton
The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past time for us to take action to correct these problems.
~ Bill Clinton
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
~ Bill Clinton
In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and predictability is not there. It becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies.
~ Bill Clinton
Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go.
~ Bill Clinton
Being President is a lot like running a cemetery. You've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.
~ Bill Clinton
Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
~ Bill Clinton
For too long we've been told about 'us' and 'them'. Each and every election we see a new slate of arguments and ads telling us that 'they' are the problem, not 'us'. But there can be no 'them' in America. There's only us.
~ Bill Clinton
Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life.
~ Bill Clinton
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the World Wide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.
~ Bill Clinton
I am going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
~ Bill Clinton
It depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is. If the—if he—if "is" means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement.
~ Bill Clinton