Politics Quotes by William J. Clinton

Politics is for people who are too ugly to get into showbusiness.

— William J. Clinton

I love the HRC. The initials are great.

— William J. Clinton

When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.

— William J. Clinton

You can't say you love your country and hate your government.

— William J. Clinton

The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.

— William J. Clinton

I am committed to curbing the influence of money in our political system.

— William J. Clinton

Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it.

— William J. Clinton

...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.

— 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

Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our…

— William J. Clinton

If we disagree and I think I'm right, I just go ahead and do what I think is right. And then she…

— William J. Clinton

There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government.

— William J. Clinton

My major political identity has been as her spouse for the last decade and I like it that way.

— William J. Clinton

There is a government within the government who controll this and i do not controll it

— 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

When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right…

— William J. Clinton

The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole…

— William J. Clinton

When you're president, you have more power to help more people, but you also are the prisoner of circumstances as well, and…

— William J. Clinton

I never thought of political endeavors primarily in terms of power and prestige, and I never thought of economic endeavors primarily in…

— William J. Clinton

Constant conflict is actually often good politics. Because the more you can inflame your supporters the more likely they are to show…

— William J. Clinton

When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good,…

— William J. Clinton

If you win elections on the theory that government is always bad and will mess up a two-car parade... a real change-maker…

— 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…

— William J. Clinton

One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization…

— 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…

— William J. Clinton

Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Gore, we have a government for the Information Age, once again a government that is…

— William J. Clinton

Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it…

— William J. Clinton

I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in…

— William J. Clinton

If you wanted to create jobs in a way that has minimal effect on the deficit but has government action, the two…

— William J. Clinton

One of the things that I realized when I left office was that in the 1990's citizens across the world applied more…

— William J. Clinton

When I first came to Washington in the 1960s, even at the height of the Vietnam War, until the end there in…

— William J. Clinton

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

— William J. Clinton

The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past time for…

— William J. Clinton

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

— William J. Clinton

Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We - the American people - we are the solution.

— William J. Clinton

Even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let…

— 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

We simply cannot afford to give the reigns of government so someone who will double down on trickle down

— William J. Clinton

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

— William J. Clinton

If you are focusing your anger at government, you are focusing your anger at all of us. Government is just a personification…

— William J. Clinton