William J. Clinton
California has become the first American state where there is no majority race, and we're doing just fine. If you look around the room, you can see a microcosm of what we can do in the world. . . . You should be hopeful on balance about the future. But it's like any future since the beginning of time -- you're going to have to make it.Collection: Race
Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. Creating a child through this new method calls into question our most fundamental beliefs. It has the potential to threaten the sacred family bonds at the very core of our ideals and our society. At its worst, it could lead to misguided and malevolent attempts to select certain traits, even to create certain kind of children -- to make our children objects rather than cherished individuals.Collection: Children
India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.Collection: Country
One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.Collection: Caring
Let us rededicate ourselves to the principle that all Americans have the tools to make the most of their God-given potential. For Indian tribes and tribal members, this means that the authority of tribal governments must be accorded the respect and support to which they are entitled under the law. It means that American Indian children and youth must be provided a solid education and the opportunity to go on to college. It means that more must be done to stimulate tribal economies, create jobs, and increase economic opportunities.Collection: Jobs
Our campaign is the opposite of 'competence.'Collection: Opposites
People like change in general, but not in particular.Collection: People
Our military superiority is so great - it's far greater than it was in the Gulf War, and the Gulf War was over in 100 hours after we bombed for 43 days. And so now they can bomb for a couple of days and then just roll into Baghdad... The odds are there's going to be a war and it's going to be not for very long.Collection: Couple
I don't like to use the word sacrifice.Collection: Sacrifice
Thomas Jefferson understood the greater purpose of the liberty that our Founding Fathers sought during the creation of our Nation. Although it was against the British that the colonists fought for political rights, the true source of the rights of man was clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson wrote that all humans are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights . . . . It was self-evident to him that denying these rights was wrong and that he and others must struggle to win what was theirs.Collection: Father
From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big bands, Benny Carter redefined American jazz. From the start, his fellow musicians said the way he played the sax was amazing. They say that about me, too. (Laughter.) But I don't think they mean it in quite the same way.Collection: Laughter
One of the main reasons we ought to re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to constructive cooperation... He appointed Republican secretaries of defense, the Army and transportation. He appointed a vice president who ran against him in 2008.Collection: Army
President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. Listen to me, now. No president - no president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years.Collection: Years
President Obama's approach embodies the values, the ideas and the direction America has to take to build the 21st-century version of the American Dream: a nation of shared opportunities, shared responsibilities, shared prosperity, a shared sense of community.Collection: Dream
I regret to say that my hand did, in fact, have an improper relationship with Chelsea Clinton. The incident represents a profound lapse of judgment for which my hand takes sole responsibility.Collection: Regret
From Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power.Collection: People
The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart.Collection: Together
There's nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.Collection: Mistake
Since I don't have access to the White House pastry chef anymore, it's done wonders for my figure.Collection: White
It's good for young people to be angry about something.Collection: People
The struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation's character.Collection: Struggle
I hate it when people blame someone else and don't take responsibility.Collection: Hate
When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill.Collection: Talking
You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any other country in the world. You vote for me and I'll give you family values.Collection: Country
I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.Collection: Inspirational
The problem with ideology is if you got an ideology, you already got your mind made up, you know all the answers, and that makes evidence irrelevant and argument a waste of time, so you tend to govern by assertion and attack. The problem with that is that discourages thinking and gives you bad results.Collection: Thinking
Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We - the American people - we are the solution.Collection: Government
The great thing about not being president anymore is I can say whatever I want, about anything. Of course [now], nobody really cares what I say. And now I have the worst of all worlds -- my wife has become the secretary of state, so no one really cares what I say -- unless I mess up.Collection: Wife
The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves.Collection: Preparation
There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children.Collection: Children
Just because you can't do everything, it doesn't mean you shouldn't do what you can.Collection: Mean
Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it.Collection: Government
That all depends on what "is" is.Collection: Wisdom
In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . .Collection: Heart
Abortion should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare.Collection: Abortion
People should really take care when they vote, and pay more attention to what people say they're going to do - instead of just how they feel about how things are going.Collection: People
I always get nervous when people start talking about legacies.Collection: Talking
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.Collection: Hurt
We [Democrats] have got to be strong. When we look weak in a time where people feel insecure, we lose. when people feel uncertain, they'd rather have somebody who's strong and wrong than somebody who's weak and right.Collection: Strong
Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.Collection: Money
Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.Collection: Religion
Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.Collection: Ties
I misled people, including even my wife.Collection: Stupid
The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.Collection: Peace
Character doesn't matter.Collection: Stupid
Indeed, I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong.Collection: Stupid
When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.Collection: Country
Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go.Collection: Inspirational
True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.Collection: Dream