William J. Clinton Quotes

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• If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not…
• Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.
• When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is…
• There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
• Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless…
• You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.
• I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.
• Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.
• Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.
• 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…
• Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful,…
• Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
• The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have…
• 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,…
• In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
• We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.
• 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…
• When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.
• It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while…
• My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in. If you want a you're on your own, winner…

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