FastSaying

The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.


William Jefferson Clinton

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's f...
XAVI Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is th...
JASON REITMAN I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace ...
JOE BIDEN Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I...
JULIE ANDREWS Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birt...
JON MEACHAM The whole world is a man's birthplace.
CAECILIUS STATIUS Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground... in New O...
JOY HARJO Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.
FREDERIC CHOPIN We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and t...
IRWIN ROSE

More William Jefferson Clinton

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vo...
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn...
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON It's the economy, stupid.
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the...
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, ...
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is not...
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone...
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON I ask you to join in a re-United States. We need to empower our people so they can take more respons...
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON I've just announced at a press conference that we're probably going to lose all services over night:...
WILLIAM JEFFERSON They treat me a little bit like someone at a funeral who just lost a loved one, ... They reach out a...
WILLIAM JEFFERSON These monies are used for food, diapers, medicines, and other essential items. For FEMA to cut off t...
WILLIAM JEFFERSON There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed ou...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity,...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most nee...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass v...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON If you're a Muslim and you love America and freedom and you hate terror, stay here and help us w...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON Where are the jobs going to come from? Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's t...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictabil...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation work...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of ...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON I still believe in a place called Hope.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in ...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody'...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON Character is a journey, not a destination.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and goo...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in. If you want a you&...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declinin...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a bette...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is not...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON When I was president, I worked hard to give you more peace and shared prosperity, to give you an Ame...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON In 1979, just after I became governor, I asked Hillary to chair a rural health committee to help exp...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of peopl...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and g...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON When I became president with a commitment to reform health care, Hillary was a natural to head the h...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obam...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates hav...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to ha...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that no...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON President Obama's approach embodies the values, the ideas, and the direction America must take t...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the informa...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know ...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON When Chelsea was 9 months old, I was defeated for reelection in the Reagan landslide. And I became o...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruc...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and s...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.....
WILLIAM J. CLINTON I married my best friend. I was still in awe after more than four years of being around her at how s...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminis...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON Hillary had never run for office before, but she decided to give it a try. She began her campaign th...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to coo...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON If you win elections on the theory that government is always bad and will mess up a two-car parade.....
WILLIAM J. CLINTON I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until w...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON I feel very blessed to have a partner in life who supports me, who is enthusiastic about what I want...
HILLARY CLINTON I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigration.
HILLARY CLINTON The United States, obviously, has a great interest in helping to maintain peace and security in Euro...
HILLARY CLINTON You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they mig...
HILLARY CLINTON When does life start? When does it end? Who makes these decisions?... Every day, in hospitals and ho...
HILLARY CLINTON Let's continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.
HILLARY CLINTON We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last ele...
KATE CLINTON They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have bee...
KATE CLINTON My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, spo...
KATE CLINTON Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefo...
KATE CLINTON I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.
KATE CLINTON I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it...
KATE CLINTON What goes for sex goes double for politics.
KATE CLINTON We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
KATE CLINTON I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want...
KATE CLINTON I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think i...
KATE CLINTON As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential r...
KATE CLINTON Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a le...
KATE CLINTON When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.
KATE CLINTON I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times ...
KATE CLINTON A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said,...
KATE CLINTON Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
KATE CLINTON I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sund...
KATE CLINTON My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty offic...
HILLARY CLINTON When I was younger and women first started to get in public positions, in my case the law, we went t...
HILLARY CLINTON When I traveled as secretary of state, I was deluged with thick briefing books full of information a...
HILLARY CLINTON I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And ...
HILLARY CLINTON One of the reasons this election is so important is because the Supreme Court hangs in the balance. ...
HILLARY CLINTON I'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity - using clean,...
HILLARY CLINTON When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in f...
CHELSEA CLINTON Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right.
HILLARY CLINTON The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges t...
HILLARY CLINTON If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to ...
HILLARY CLINTON There's a difference between fair game and playing games.
HILLARY CLINTON Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.
HILLARY CLINTON You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.
HILLARY CLINTON One of the biggest problems that Egypt faces is the lack of border security - the importation of wea...
HILLARY CLINTON It is daffodil time, so the robins all cry, For the sun's a big daffodil up in the sky, And wh...
CLINTON SCOLLARD The lyric sound of laughter Fills all the April hills The joy-song of the crocus, The mi...
CLINTON SCOLLARD The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets ...
BILL CLINTON When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.....
BILL CLINTON There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
BILL CLINTON No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises th...
BILL CLINTON When you have armed militants, aided and abetted by a major country like Russia, able to use surface...
HILLARY CLINTON I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can sa...
HILLARY CLINTON I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.
HILLARY CLINTON The family I'm from, well, no one had their name on big buildings. My family were builders of a ...
HILLARY CLINTON My overall goal is to level the playing field for American businesses.
HILLARY CLINTON You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contra...
HILLARY CLINTON I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done private...
CHELSEA CLINTON In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or ...
HILLARY CLINTON Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.
HILLARY CLINTON My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that '...
CHELSEA CLINTON I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit w...
CHELSEA CLINTON I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relation...
HILLARY CLINTON Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. I...
HILLARY CLINTON I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperat...
HILLARY CLINTON If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.
HILLARY CLINTON Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of p...
HILLARY CLINTON If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, y...
HILLARY CLINTON People can judge me for what I've done. And I think when somebody's out in the public eye, t...
HILLARY CLINTON My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. Tha...
CHELSEA CLINTON I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person.
CHELSEA CLINTON Oxford is wonderful. I'm having a great time. We do go out, but I still try to spend most of my ...
CHELSEA CLINTON I certainly believe that all of my friends should have the right, as Marc and I did, to marry their ...
CHELSEA CLINTON There's something else that my mother taught me, public service is about service. And, as her da...
CHELSEA CLINTON I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.
CHELSEA CLINTON As a kid, I was pretty obsessed with dinosaurs and the day that my parents took me to Dinosaur Natio...
CHELSEA CLINTON We need Hollywood to make movies and television shows about sexy female engineers.
CHELSEA CLINTON My dad had always been a big decaf coffee drinker. But my mom had always been more of a tea drinker....
CHELSEA CLINTON My earliest memory is my mom picking me up after I had fallen down, giving me a big hug and reading ...
CHELSEA CLINTON And every day that I spend as Charlotte and Aiden's mother, I think about my own mother, my wond...
CHELSEA CLINTON For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.
CHELSEA CLINTON People recognize me. Most people are really nice. Sometimes people say, 'Hi, Chelsea.'
CHELSEA CLINTON Changing laws and changing the political dialogue, while necessary, is insufficient to ensure that b...
CHELSEA CLINTON I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disast...
CHELSEA CLINTON At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in caree...
CHELSEA CLINTON We have to do whatever we can to ensure that no child dies of diarrhea.
CHELSEA CLINTON Role models really matter. It's hard to imagine yourself as something you don't see.
CHELSEA CLINTON Determination gets you a long way.
CHELSEA CLINTON Millennials regularly draw ire for their cell phone usage. They're mobile natives, having come o...
CHELSEA CLINTON I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going int...
HILLARY CLINTON Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal l...
HILLARY CLINTON Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families wh...
HILLARY CLINTON Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the int...
HILLARY CLINTON That's who my mom is. She's a listener and a doer. She's a woman driven by compassion, b...
CHELSEA CLINTON We need women who are at the head of a boardroom, like at the head of the White House, at the head o...
CHELSEA CLINTON What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without...
HILLARY CLINTON It's impossible to know what happens in the fog of war.
HILLARY CLINTON To me you cannot be fully human, fully civilised, unless you recognise humanity in everyone.
HILLARY CLINTON I think I'm chronically exhausted.
HILLARY CLINTON The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people...
HILLARY CLINTON I believe climate change is real and that we can save our planet while creating millions of good-pay...
HILLARY CLINTON I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
HILLARY CLINTON The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the...
HILLARY CLINTON There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, ricks...
HILLARY CLINTON I hope that my children will someday be as proud of me as I am of my mom. I am so grateful to be her...
CHELSEA CLINTON I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.
CHELSEA CLINTON In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Wel...
HILLARY CLINTON When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your...
BILL CLINTON Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to...
BILL CLINTON You know, it's just one small step from legacy to lame duck.
BILL CLINTON Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty...
BILL CLINTON It's the economy, stupid.
BILL CLINTON If people can't let go to the hatred of their enemies, they risk sowing the seeds of hate among them...
BILL CLINTON People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq o...
BILL CLINTON I have a lot of reason to believe, as we saw in the 2012 election, most Americans don't agree wi...
HILLARY CLINTON I'll work to ensure that every single refugee who seeks asylum in the United States has a fair c...
HILLARY CLINTON In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.
HILLARY CLINTON My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and ...
HILLARY CLINTON Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.
HILLARY CLINTON I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's ...
GEORGE CLINTON It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gather...
HILLARY CLINTON Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those ad...
CHELSEA CLINTON We're always going to argue about abortion. It's a hard choice and it's controversial, a...
HILLARY CLINTON The Arctic is going to be an area of intense interest. Russia has the longest coastline in the world...
HILLARY CLINTON In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is cle...
HILLARY CLINTON If you believe you can make a difference, not just in politics, in public service, in advocacy aroun...
HILLARY CLINTON I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and d...
HILLARY CLINTON My parents always asked me what I thought, listened to my opinions, articulated their diagnoses of o...
CHELSEA CLINTON We need more good jobs that reward hard work with rising wages, dignity, and a ladder to a better li...
HILLARY CLINTON There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world,...
HILLARY CLINTON You know, just to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I ...
HILLARY CLINTON I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.
HILLARY CLINTON I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being Preside...
HILLARY CLINTON The first sort of big present I remember getting from Santa Claus was quite a small telescope that I...
CHELSEA CLINTON We are a country where people of all backgrounds, all nations of origin, all languages, all religion...
HILLARY CLINTON I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John ...
HILLARY CLINTON I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one grou...
HILLARY CLINTON I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of the...
HILLARY CLINTON