Quotes from Bill Clinton

All too often anger works better than answers; resentment better than reason; emotion trumps evidence. A sanctimonious, sneering one-liner, no matter how bogus, is seen as straight talk, while a calm, well-argued response is seen as canned and phony.

Follow the trend lines, not the headlines.

And you hear me, you unelected flunky. I only take orders from the president. Until I hear from him, I'll be

If there is nothing else to learn from history, it's that from humans to animals, from the most primitive to the most civilized, most individuals want to be led. Take out the leader, and the rest of the pack panics.

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.

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.

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

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.

At the end of the Constitutional Convention, a citizen asked Benjamin Franklin what kind of government our founders had given us. He replied, A republic, if you can keep it. That's a job no president can do alone. It's up to all of us to keep it. And to make the most of it.

Nos servimos de la tecnología para volver a formas primitivas de relación humana

Participation in our democracy seems to be driven by the instant-gratification worlds of Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, and the twenty-four-hour news cycle.

A whole host of functions that were once performed without the Internet now can only be performed with the Internet. There is no fallback.

His knowledge of war has fed a passion for peace.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.B

Psychologically, we're all a complex mixture of hopes and fears. Each day we wake up with the scales tipping a bit one way or the other. If they go too far toward hopefulness, we can become naïve and unrealistic. If the scales tilt too far the other way, we can get consumed by paranoia and hatred.

One of the great ironies of the modern age," he begins, "is that the advancements of mankind can make us more powerful and yet more vulnerable at the same time. The greater the power, the greater the vulnerability. You think, rightly so, that you are at the apex of your power, that you can do more things than ever before. But I see you at the peak of your vulnerability. "The reason is reliance. Our society has become completely reliant on technology.

And now she's a parasite, living off her host. If he makes a mistake, she made the mistake.

Sooner or later, every president faces decisions in which the right choice is bad politics, at least in the short term. If the stakes are high, you have to do what you think is right and hope the political tide will turn. It's the job you promised to do.

She always said, You boys aren't rich enough to afford not to pay attention.

Her close-cropped hair is now completely gray. Her eyes are probing but kind.

The American dream works when our common humanity matters more than our interesting differences and when together they create endless possibilities.

I have stood down sadistic drill sergeants, cruel Iraqi interrogators, partisan lawmakers, and the Washington press corps, but my daughter can punch my buttons like no one else.

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I stroke the hair of my brilliant, strong, independent girl. She is a woman now, with her mother's beauty and brains and spirit, but she will always be the little girl who lit up when she saw me, who squealed when I'd bombard her with kisses, who couldn't fall back asleep after a nightmare unless Daddy held her hand.