Bill Clinton Quotes

Being president is like running a cemetery: you have got a lot of people under you and nobody is listening.
- Bill Clinton

Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.
- Bill Clinton

Being President is like being the groundskeeper in a cemetery: there are a lot of people under you, but none of them are listening.
- Bill Clinton

She always said, You boys aren’t rich enough to afford not to pay attention.
- Bill Clinton

We know we have to face hard truths and take strong steps, but we have not done so; instead, we have drifted. And that drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy, and shaken our confidence.
- Bill Clinton

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

I close the door and plug the secure line into my laptop and pull up the triumvirate of Carolyn Brock, Liz Greenfield, and Sam Haber of Homeland Security on a three-way split screen.
- Bill Clinton

If you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat.
- Bill Clinton

Our job is to live as well and as long as we can, and to help others to do the same. What happens after that and how we are viewed by others is beyond our control.
- Bill Clinton

A man is more than the sum of all the things he can do.
- Bill Clinton

When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better.
- Bill Clinton

First of all, Hillary has to win the nomination. If she wins the nomination, then she has to win the election, if she wins the election, the chances are 100 percent I move back ... If I'm asked.
- Bill Clinton

You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.
- Bill Clinton

When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.
- Bill Clinton

Scholars call this false equivalency. It means that when you find a mountain to expose in one person or party, you have to pick a molehill on the other side and make it into a mountain to avoid being accused of bias.
- Bill Clinton

Take out the leader, and the rest of the pack panics.
- Bill Clinton

I may not have been the greatest president, but I've had the most fun eight years.
- Bill Clinton

The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.
- Bill Clinton

When I think about what young people today have gone through, what they have known from our country, starting with a horrible attack on 9/11, going into the great recession, there is no wonder that they along with so many of us are saying, wait a minute, we are better than this, we can do more.
- Bill Clinton