William J. Clinton Quotes

I did a lot of work on energy efficiency at the White House. By the time I left we had taken the equivalent of six hundred cars a year off the road in reduced greenhouse gas emissions just in the White House complex.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Equivalent Taken White Years
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.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Economic Water Wind
Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.
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Bipolar Healing Helpful
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Day Freedom July Memorial
I think just about everybody ought to get a second chance and I’d like to see it worked out, because he (Pete Rose) brought a lot of joy to the game, and he gave a lot of joy to people, and he’s paid a price – God knows, he’s paid a price.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Games Second Chance Thinking
It simply doesn’t make any sense for us to have illegal aliens in our custody in our courts and then let them go back to living here illegally. That’s wrong and we should stop it.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Aliens Custody Immigration
I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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Effort Republican Responsibility Thinking
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 our president [Barack Obama] and a lot of other Democrats.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Country Hate Party People President
One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old “sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”
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Hurt Kids Parent
What you earn depends on what you learn.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Cookies Fortune Information Internet Technology
For 60 years, Social Security has meant more than an ID number on a tax form; more than a monthly check in the mail. It reflects our deepest values – our respect for our parents and our belief that all Americans deserve to retire with dignity.
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Deepest Numbers People Value Years
When we give what we can, and give it with joy, we don’t just renew the American tradition of giving, we also renew ourselves.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Giving Joy Ourselves Tradition
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. . . .
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Orientation Race People Religion Sexual
Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.
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Demand Excellence Levels
…the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Borders Facts Immigration
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.
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Financial Law Today
Progress changes consciousness, and when people’s consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well – a virtuous circle.
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Circles People Progress
Sure enough at Oxford, I was another Yank half a step behind.
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Half Oxford Steps
Just as war is freedom’s cost, disagreement is freedom’s privilege.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Freedom Money War
We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.
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Immigrant Law Permits Self Years
In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago
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Humorous Investigation Real Stupid
One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Caring Predictions Thinking
We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.
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Democracy Historical Transition
We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values. Technology can help cure diseases, but we can prevent a lot of diseases by old-fashioned changes in behavior.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Reflection Science Technology
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

Bringing Commitment People Race
Over time, the more we bring China into the world, the more the world will bring freedom to China.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Country More People World
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.
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Democracy Envy Renewal

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