William J. Clinton Quotes

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William J. Clinton

Profession : President

Birth : August 19, 1946

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

William J. Clinton

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 investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

William J. Clinton

In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.

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I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.

William J. Clinton

When Chelsea was 9 months old, I was defeated for reelection in the Reagan landslide. And I became overnight, I think, the youngest former governor in the history of the country. We only had two-year terms back then.

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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 how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

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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, independent, free people.

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Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

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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 good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.

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Character is a journey, not a destination.

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We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

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Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.

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Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

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When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.

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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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I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

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Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.

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When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.

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When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.

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The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime.

William J. Clinton