Century Quote by 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

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings)

More by 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…

William J. Clinton

Image

Almost makes you want to go to jail out here, doesn't it?

William J. Clinton

Image

I take full responsability...for what we did. It was the right thing to do.

William J. Clinton

Image

Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in our individual…

William J. Clinton

Image

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.

William J. Clinton

Image

To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm…

William J. Clinton

Image

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

Image

Only astrophysicists new about the Internet 20 years ago. Today my cat has a website.

William J. Clinton

Image

Our military superiority is so great - it's far greater than it was in the Gulf War, and the Gulf War was over in…

William J. Clinton

Image

You know, I've always been really interested in this stuff, and I'm going to read this.

William J. Clinton

Image

If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better,…

William J. Clinton

Image

We [Democrats] have got to be strong. When we look weak in a time where people feel insecure, we lose. when people feel uncertain,…

William J. Clinton

Image

Explore all 712 William J. Clinton quotes

More Century quotes

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

Anonymous

Image

[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,…

Pico Iyer

Image

Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

Anonymous

Image

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

David Hare

Image

In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did…

George Orwell

Image

Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds…

Kevin Maney

Image

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains…

James A. Garfield

Image

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the…

Ida B. Wells

Image

At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is…

Phil Zimmermann

Image

While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,…

Barbara Tuchman