Famous Bill Clinton Quotes

It would scare the shit out of al Qaeda if suddenly a bunch of black ninjas rappelled out of helicopters in to the middle of their camp. It would get us an enormous deterrence and show those guys we're not afraid.
By Bill Clinton on al Qaeda

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
By Bill Clinton on America

You should have disagreements with your leaders and your colleagues, but if it becomes immediately a question of questioning people's motives, and if immediately you decide that somebody who sees a whole new situation differently than you must be a bad person and somehow twisted inside, we are not going to get very far in forming a more perfect union.
By Bill Clinton on Disagreements

Our rich texture of racial, religious and political diversity will be a Godsend in the 21st century. Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
By Bill Clinton on Diversity

Today, future belongs to freedom, not to fear.
By Bill Clinton on Freedom

A hundred years from tonight, another American President will stand in this place and report on the State of the Union. He or she will look back on a 21st century shaped in so many ways by the decisions we make here and now. So let it be said of us then that we were thinking not only of our time, but of their time; that we reached as high as our ideals; that we put aside our divisions and found a new hour of healing and hopefulness; that we joined together to serve and strengthen the land we love
By Bill Clinton on Future

We want to live forever, and we're getting there.
By Bill Clinton on Living Forever

It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the — if he — if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not — that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement
By Bill Clinton on Meaning of Is

I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
By Bill Clinton on Monica Lewinsky

No one wants to get this matter behind us more than I do — except maybe all the rest of the American people.
By Bill Clinton on Monica Lewinsky

What are the needs of the world? What can I do that won't be done if I don't do it?
By Bill Clinton on Needs

Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they came yesterday or walked this land a thousand years ago our great challenge for the 21st century is to find a way to be One America. We can meet all the other challenges if we can go forward as One America.
By Bill Clinton on One America

Posterity 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.
By Bill Clinton on Posterity

We need a steady stream of cash. The American people have been uncommonly generous.
By Bill Clinton on Tsunami Relief

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
By Bill Clinton on Values

End welfare as we know it.
By Bill Clinton on Welfare