Bill Clinton (b. 1946)

Quotes

• When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.

• Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

• 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.

• The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.

• When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two, I didn't like it, I didn't inhale it, and never tried it again.

• Opportunity for all means making taxes fair. I'm not out to soak the rich. But I do believe the rich should pay their fair share. For twelve years, the Republicans have raised taxes on the middle class. It's time to give the middle class tax relief.

• Ronald Reagan and George Bush pushed through programs that raised taxes on the middle class. I think it's time to cut them. And in my administration I'll offer a middle-income tax cut that will cut rates on the middle class.

• We have to ask the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share again. Their incomes went up in the 1980s and their taxes went down. We can't ask the middle class to pay more; their incomes went down and their taxes went up.

• [George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.

• No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again.

• I'm not going to raise taxes on middle-class Americans to pay for the programs I've recommended.

• The United States can't be so fixed on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...

• There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

• When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web....now even my cat has its own page.

• Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

• It takes a long time to turn a big country around.

• The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.

• Today we can declare: Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We, the American people, we are the solution.

• We are living in a world, where what we earn is a function of what we learn.

• We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership.