Bill Clinton People Quotations

Millions of ordinary people across the globe rallied to the immediate aid of communities devastated by the tsunami. Now our collective challenge is to finish the job, to leave behind safer, more peaceful and stronger communities.

One of the things we have to ask is: what could we do to give incentives for people to get jobs where they have to relocate, ... A lot of these people will be out of their homes a year or more.

One of things we have to ask is, what could we do to give incentives for people to get jobs where they have to relocate; a lot of these people will be out of their homes a year or more,

No I disagree with that. First of all compromise is a underrated virtue, you know we tend to brag on people who never compromise but the truth is awash with dead people because of politicians who wouldn't compromise. I think sometimes compromise is the greatest virtue.

I have apologized to the American people for what I did wrong, and most Americans think I paid a pretty heavy price.

With more than one million people on treatment in developing countries, we face a growing challenge to keep costs affordable as we reach out to millions more in need.

There are still people who view AIDS as something that affects only people who are different,

John had a dream of black people as successful and smart and beautiful and heroic, a vision of keeping hope alive by showing black people as faces of hope. He never gave up. He never gave in. He once said 'At the end of the day, we're all just trying to give people hope.' I liked John Johnson. I thought he was a strong and wise, straight forward and kind man.

I think it's very important that Americans understand... tax cuts are always popular, but about half of these tax cuts since 2001 have gone to people in my income group, the top 1 percent. I've gotten four tax cuts. They're responsible for this big structural deficit, and they're not going away, the deficits aren't.

I think some of these people make honest mistakes.

I think that, in a larger sense, there are millions of people all across America that are the children of Martin and Coretta King, whose whole lives were shaped by their passion for people, opportunity and justice, and their commitment to nonviolent change and by not being discouraged in the face of repeated disappointment.

I want to thank Michelle for this very generous contribution to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund, ... There are many people in the Gulf region who are in need and who will benefit from Michelle's extraordinary generosity. She's truly an inspiration on and off the course.

I will relinquish my office -- doing so with a heart filled with gratitude; gratitude to the American people for the chance to serve and to leave our country with more opportunity, stronger bonds of community and a more positive impact in the larger world, at the dawn of a new century and a whole new aspect of human affairs.

Recovery is going to take years. Fifty thousand people are still living in tents. I hope you will think of them.

I think he's got it. The Democrats need candidates whom people can relate to in a personal way, people who understand their lives and their concerns and share their values. And I think that's something Tim can do without even pretending.

I think many people would be disappointed to learn that. But I think there is such a deep appreciation for the many contributions that President Clinton has made ... that there would also be a sense of proportion about it.

The American people are concerned, and rightfully so. Americans should never have to worry that their employers are looking at the medicines they take, or the ailments they've had.

We have people quite often who are shot in quail incidents, so I didn't feel the need to get into the pile-on.

We have to show the benefits of democracy and globalization to ordinary citizens. If we don't put a human face on the global economy and we don't put a competence factor into local democracy, then both will eventually be rejected by ordinary people in Africa and throughout the world.

When people talk about me now, I feel like I'm a witness at my own funeral.

When people feel uncertain, they'd rather have somebody that's strong and wrong than somebody who's weak and right.

You get different and better questions if the people asking the questions represent America and the world, ... Every one of us filters the world through the prism of our own experience. The press corps should look like the country they are reporting to.

We could reduce the future that we can build for our children if we respond to the challenges in the wrong way. Whatever we do we have to have a care for the security of our nation, the character of our people and the future of our children. We must respond in a way that is consistent with the larger obligation that we all have to build a more integrated global community.

Because if that's your standard, then your success or failure totally depends upon what other people decide to do and how they read their own interests,

The world's poor cannot be led by people like Mr. bin Laden who think they can find their redemption in our destruction. But the world's rich cannot be led by people who play to our short-sided selfishness and pretend that we can forever claim for ourselves what we deny to others.

I've reached an age now where it doesn't matter whatever happens to me. I just don't want anyone to die before their time. I've asked you here because I think all of us have an unprecedented power to solve problems, save lives and help people see the future.

Sometimes I think I have no idea how I got to be president, and I am sure the people who oppose me don't either.

Pre-emptive action today may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future because -- and I have ordered this kind of action -- I don't care how precise your bombs and weapons are, when you set them off innocent people die.

Our air campaign cannot stop until Mr. Milosevic shows that he is ready to end the nightmare for the people of Kosovo,

People should get what they pay for online; it should be easy to get redress if they don't.

Africa's future should be viewed as it is, in the hands of Africans, both the people and their leaders.

Now I've already told you I think we ought to be doing more to help, but there's some people you can't help if they don't help themselves. And I think this is a very, very important point.

Despite the government's attempts to manipulate the vote, it does seem clear that the people have voted for change.

All Americans, indeed all people throughout the world, owe him what he regarded as the ultimate compliment: He was a statesman who sought to build a lasting structure of peace.

This agreement will allow the delivery of life-saving medicines to people who desperately need them. It represents a big breakthrough in our efforts to begin treatment programs in places where, until now, there has been virtually no medicine, and therefore no hope.

And I hope that the end will come sooner rather than later, so fewer people will die.

There's a lot of evidence you can sell people on tax increases if they think it's an investment

There may come a time when we elect a president at age 45 or 50, and then 20 years later the country comes up against the same kind of problems the president faced before. People would like to bring that man or woman back but they would have no way to do so.

It's the American people who sent us here; it's our obligation to meet their priorities. So let's roll up our sleeves, get back to work and get back to work and finish the work we were sent here to do.

It's California I'm worried about. I don't want you to become a laughingstock, a carnival or the beginning of a circus in America where we just throw people out as soon as they make a tough decision. . . . Don't do this. Don't do this.

I want people like some of you in this audience to be part of a Clinton administration, not because or in spite of your sexual orientation, but because America needs you

I want people here at home in America and throughout the world who are listening to this program to know that if you only have a dollar, $5, $10 to give -- if a million of you do, that you'll make a huge difference,

These people ran on responsibility, but as soon as you scratch them, they go straight to blame. Now, you know, I didn't blame his father for Somalia when we had that awful day memorialized in ""Black Hawk Down."" I didn't do that.

These people are fighting for their lives and they are fighting for the lives of their children and they are trying to get their act together, ... It would be unconscionable if we don't do something to help.

Nothing we do can be an adequate response to the agony that we have seen, the suffering of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

I met children who lost their daddies and I met a lot of people who survived. This is the first time they've had a chance to clap their hands and shout and dance. This is a great gift to them.

I hope they will say that I did a good job of leading America into a new century, a new millennium, and a whole new way working and living and relating to the rest of the world, that I lifted the American people up. And brought them together.

I loved living in the White House. But I never thought I could do that for life. The thing I miss most -- is the work and the people that I worked with and saw. But I actually like this part of my life -- I like having my life back.

In a world darkened by ethnic conflicts that tear nations apart, Canada stands as a model of how people of different cultures can live and work together in peace, prosperity, and mutual respect.

I'm somewhat suspicious of anybody's ability to motivate anybody else except by just being who they are and telling their story. That's what I'm sure Lance did earlier. And yet I've always wished I could do more to help other people tell their stories.

In 1991, with our leadership, the U.N. Security Council encouraged Iraq to sell oil to pay for these critical humanitarian supplies. Saddam Hussein rejected that offer for four years, choosing instead to let his people suffer. What resources he had went not to caring for his people but to strengthening his army, hiding his weapons of mass destruction and building lavish palaces for his regime.

If people can't let go to the hatred of their enemies, they risk sowing the seeds of hate among themselves.

If you live in a country where you're never required to take responsibility for yourself, where you never even have to ask whether there's something you should be doing to solve your own problems, then people are kept in a kind of a permanent state o

I really believe one of the reasons the American people gave me a second term was to take the tough decisions in the next four years that will carry our country through the next fifty years.

I do believe we need to do more on our own here in America to deal with some of the things we've learned, some of the pressure points we've learned are on our people in these last few months.

hear the stories of the people fleeing the ethnic cleansing.

You can't have an emergency plan that works if it only affects middle class people up, and when you tell people to go do something they don't have the means to do, you're going to leave the poor out.