110+ William J. Clinton Quotes On Education, Constitution And Feminism

William J. Clinton was the 42nd president of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. He was the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to be elected to a second term. During his tenure, he signed the North American Free Trade Agreement, balanced the budget, and implemented welfare reform. Following is our collection on famous quotes by William J. Clinton on leadership, education, constitution.

Top 10 William J. Clinton Quotes

1. There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have seen the Taj Mahal and love it and those who have not seen the Taj and love it.
2. We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.
3. I did not have sexual relations with that woman
4. NAFTA means jobs. American jobs, and good paying American jobs. If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't support this agreement.
5. It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.
6. Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.
7. It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.
8. I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.
9. AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.
10. Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.

William J. Clinton Short Quotes

• You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
• There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
• Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
• The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.
• Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.
• The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.
• Behind every great man there stands a great woman. Behind every great woman is a great behind.
• You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.
• I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.
• Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

William J. Clinton Quotes About Education

Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education. — William J. Clinton

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. — William J. Clinton

By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum wage for the entire year. — William J. Clinton

In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever. — William J. Clinton

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens. — William J. Clinton

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything. — William J. Clinton

We must continue to deepen our ties to the Americas and the Caribbean, our common work to educate children, fight drugs, strengthen democracy, and increase trade. — William J. Clinton

We can't afford to lose control of our own borders or to take on new financial burdens at a time when we are not adequately providing for the jobs, the health care and the education of our own people. — William J. Clinton

If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed. — William J. Clinton

Education is not a privilege, it is a right! — William J. Clinton

William J. Clinton Quotes About Constitution

When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly. — William J. Clinton

We don't need a constitutional amendment for kids to pray. — William J. Clinton

If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees. — William J. Clinton

Americans - not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George - we've always been of two minds about the government, which is why the framers wrote the Constitution the way they did. — William J. Clinton

If you believe in the values of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, if you're willing to work hard and play by the rules, you are part of our family. And we're proud to be with you. — William J. Clinton

The Constitution is a radical document... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights. — William J. Clinton

constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely responsable — William J. Clinton

We are a people of faith. We have been so secure in that faith that we have enshrined in our Constitution protection for people who profess no faith. And good for us for doing so. That is what the First Amendment is all about. — William J. 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. — William J. Clinton

I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible. — William J. Clinton

William J. Clinton Quotes About World

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans. — William J. Clinton

Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits. — William J. Clinton

When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps — William J. Clinton

Our bridge to the future must include bridges to other nations, because we remain the world's indispensable nation to advance prosperity, peace and freedom and to keep our own children safe from the dangers of terror and weapons of mass destruction. — William J. Clinton

What works in the real world is cooperation. — William J. Clinton

There seems to be no mainframe explanation for the PC world in which we're living. — William J. Clinton

The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the end, all the world's wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of the human spirit. — William J. Clinton

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world. — William J. Clinton

A world without walls is the only sustainable world. . . . If the world is dominated by people who believe that their races, their religions, their ethnic differences are the most important factors, then a huge number of people will perish in this century. — William J. Clinton

Together, people with good hearts and fine minds can move the world. — William J. Clinton

William J. Clinton Quotes About Economy

The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves. — William J. Clinton

We simply have to transition from an economy based almost exclusively on oil and coal and natural gas to one that's far more diversified, that uses solar energy, and wind energy, and the power of the tides, and bio-mass energy, and eventually, develops hydrogen. — William J. Clinton

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. — William J. Clinton

What we should be doing [in US] is accelerating every year our efforts to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, have a cleaner energy future, have much more energy conservation. And this won't hurt anybody. This will create a new economy for America, if we've got the discipline to do it. — William J. Clinton

Rarely have Americans lived through so much change, in so many ways, in so short a time. Quietly, but with gathering force, the ground has shifted beneath our feet as we have moved into an Information Age, a global economy, a truly new world. — William J. Clinton

Over the past 7 years, we've tried to modernize the economy, and today what we're doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down these antiquated walls, and granting banks significant new authority. — William J. Clinton

The economy has produced 6.1 million jobs since I became president, and if Michael Jordan comes back to the Bulls, it will be 6,100,001 jobs. — William J. Clinton

To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization. It's the central reality of our time. — William J. Clinton

In the emerging global economy, everything is mobile: capital, factories, even entire industries. The only resource that's really rooted in a nation--and the ultimate source of all its wealth--is its people. — William J. Clinton

No generation has had the opportunity, as we now have, to build a global economy that leaves no-one behind. It is a wonderful opportunity, but also a profound responsibility. — William J. Clinton

William J. Clinton Quotes About People

People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons. — William J. Clinton

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true. — William J. 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. . . . — William J. Clinton

Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive. — William J. Clinton

From Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power. — William J. Clinton

This remains a very important opportunity for the American people to have their day in court against big tobacco and its marketing practices. I urge Congress to provide the funding to allow the lawsuit to move forward, and not to shield the tobacco industry from the consequences of its actions. — William J. Clinton

[Illegal immigration] costs the taxpayers of the United States a lot of money. And it's unfair to Americans who are working every day to pay their own bills. It's also unfair to a lot of people who have waited in line for years and years in other countries to be legal immigrants. — William J. Clinton

We find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well. — William J. Clinton

The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people. — William J. Clinton

Progress changes consciousness, and when people's consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well - a virtuous circle. — William J. Clinton

William J. Clinton Quotes About Weapons

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons. — William J. Clinton

One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line. — William J. Clinton

We will stand mighty for peace and freedom and maintain a strong defense against terror and destruction. Our children will sleep free from the threat of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons. — William J. Clinton

If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program. — William J. Clinton

The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow. — William J. Clinton

A great democracy doesn't make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon. — William J. Clinton

In our efforts to battle terrorism and cyber attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive. We must protect our people from danger and keep America safe and free. — William J. Clinton

The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House. — William J. Clinton

William J. Clinton Quotes About Wife

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever. — William J. Clinton

I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. — William J. Clinton

The great thing about not being president anymore is I can say whatever I want, about anything. Of course [now], nobody really cares what I say. And now I have the worst of all worlds -- my wife has become the secretary of state, so no one really cares what I say -- unless I mess up. — William J. Clinton

I misled people, including even my wife. — William J. Clinton

My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office. — William J. Clinton

William J. Clinton Famous Quotes And Sayings

The seven principles of Kwanzaa - unity, self-determinat ion, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith -- teach us that when we come together to strengthen our families and communities and honor the lesson of the past, we can face the future with joy and optimism. — William J. Clinton

I think the country could be spared a lot of agony and the government could worry about inflation and a lot of other problems if [Nixon would] go on and resign. [There is] no question that an admission of making false statements to government officials and interfering with the FBI and the CIA is an impeachable offense. — William J. Clinton

I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time - never. These allegations are false. — William J. Clinton

When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport. — William J. 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. — William J. Clinton

When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities. — William J. Clinton

I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation. — William J. Clinton

There is a government within the government who controll this and i do not controll it — William J. Clinton

Though government has an important role to play in meeting the many challenges that remain before us, we are coming to understand that no organization, including government, will fully succeed without the active participation of each of us. Volunteers are vital to enabling this country to live up to the true promise of its heritage — William J. Clinton

Our immigration policy is focussed in four areas: First, strengthening border control; second, protecting American jobs by enforcing laws against illegal immigrants at the workplace; third, deporting criminal and deportable aliens; fourth, giving assistance to states who need it, and denying illegal aliens benefits for public services or welfare. — William J. Clinton

I don't like to use the word sacrifice. — William J. Clinton

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills. — William J. Clinton

Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind. — William J. Clinton

Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now. — William J. Clinton

American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted. — William J. Clinton

African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do. — William J. Clinton

Sometimes I think the environment in which we operate is entirely too secular. The fact that we have freedom of religion doesn't mean we need to try to have freedom from religion — William J. Clinton

I am in support of the NRA position on gun control. — William J. Clinton

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit. — William J. Clinton

You can't say you love your country and hate your government. — William J. Clinton

We should stay on the right track to the 21st century. Opportunity alone is not enough. I want to build an America in the 21st century in which all Americans take personal responsibility for themselves, their families, their communities and their country. — William J. Clinton

On Bill Clinton: I have a simple question: Who's the last President to give you a balanced budget? — William J. 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. — William J. Clinton

We passed welfare reform. All of you know I believe we were right to do it. — William J. Clinton

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

We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future. — William J. Clinton

When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to Americans, it was assumed that Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly...When personal freedom is being abused, you have to move to limit it. — William J. 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. — William J. Clinton

So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks. — William J. Clinton

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country. — William J. Clinton

We should scrub all of our federal regulations to find responsible ways to make life easier to small businesses, i want to be a small business president. — William J. Clinton

Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back. — William J. Clinton

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President. — William J. Clinton

You live in the age of interdependence. Borders don't count for much or stop much, good or bad, anymore. — William J. Clinton

Citizenship in the 21st century requires more than paying your taxes and voting and occasionally running for office. That even if you're never in political office, you have political responsibilities. You can make your society stronger and better. — William J. Clinton

When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn’t like it, and I didn’t inhale, and I never tried again. — William J. Clinton

A few years ago, (Barack Obama) would have been getting us coffee. — William J. Clinton

Let's create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don't fight because of our differences. — William J. Clinton

The problem with ideology is if you got an ideology, you already got your mind made up, you know all the answers, and that makes evidence irrelevant and argument a waste of time, so you tend to govern by assertion and attack. The problem with that is that discourages thinking and gives you bad results. — William J. Clinton

Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow. — William J. Clinton

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

What you earn depends on what you learn. — William J. Clinton

Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents. — William J. Clinton

Keep your eyes on the prize and don't turn back. — William J. Clinton

Every American should have above average income, and my Administration is going to see they get it. — William J. Clinton

I want to say to you is that James Madison and Thomas Jefferson did not intend to drive a stake in the heart of religion and to drive it out of our public life. What they intended to do was to set up a system so that we could bring religion into our public life and into our private life without any of us telling the other what to do. — William J. Clinton

Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation. — William J. Clinton

The more children see of violence, the more numb they are to the deadly consequences of violence. Now, video games like 'Mortal Kombat,' 'Killer Instinct,' and 'Doom,' the very game played obsessively by the two young men who ended so many lives in Littleton, make our children more active participants in simulated violence. — William J. Clinton

I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it. — William J. Clinton

Life is a journey towards truth, we have something to learn from each other, and everybody ought to have a chance to make the journey. So for us, a community is just made up of anybody who accepts the rules of the game, everybody counts, everybody has a role to play, everybody deserves a chance and we all do better when we work together — William J. Clinton

I think it's crazy for us to play games with our children's future. We know what's happening to the climate, we have a highly predictable set of consequences if we continue to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. — William J. Clinton

I experimented with marijuana a time or two. — William J. Clinton

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation. — William J. Clinton

If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather. — William J. 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! — William J. Clinton

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable. — William J. Clinton

I think you have you to give people the facts [about global warming], and then you have to tell them, this is not like drinking Castor Oil. There is a, an economically exciting way for us to create a whole new generation of American jobs without costing them an enormous amount of money or forcing them to change their lifestyle. — William J. Clinton

Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early. — William J. Clinton

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

We have a chance here to prove that [Rwanda], a country that almost slaughtered itself out of existence, can practice reconciliation, reorganize itself, focus on tomorrow and provide comprehensive, quality health care with minimal outside help. — William J. Clinton

Life Lessons by William J. Clinton

1. William J. Clinton's life teaches us the importance of resilience and determination in the face of adversity. He overcame personal and political struggles to become one of the most successful presidents in American history.
2. He also showed us the power of empathy and understanding in the political arena, as he was able to bridge divides between parties and create meaningful change.
3. Finally, he demonstrated the importance of taking responsibility for one's actions, as he accepted the consequences of his mistakes and worked to make amends.