Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there’s plenty of people below you but no one’s listening.
WILLIAM J. CLINTONPosterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.
More William J. Clinton Quotes
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Noting his mother’s visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early.
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Sincerity? I can fake that.
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You don’t have to wait till your party’s in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world.
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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.
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People should really take care when they vote, and pay more attention to what people say they’re going to do – instead of just how they feel about how things are going.
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[George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.
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We find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well.
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Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.
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Any president that lies to the American people should have to resign.
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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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Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.
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Frankly, I’m fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn’t.
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India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.
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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.
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He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can’t let go of the hatred of their enemies they risk sowing the seeds of hate among themselves.
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