Let's adopt some short-term strategies to get growth going and then let's have a long-term debt reduction package. That's what I think we should do and I think it will work. William J. Clinton More Quotes by William J. Clinton More Quotes From William J. Clinton When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to Americans, it was assumed that Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly...When personal freedom is being abused, you have to move to limit it. William J. Clinton gun country moving We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither. William J. Clinton presidential community dream The Information Age is, first and foremost, an education age, in which education must start at birth and continue throughout a lifetime. Last year, from this podium, I said that education has to be our highest priority. I have something to say to every family listening to us tonight: Your children can go on to college.... Because of the things that have been done, we can make college as universal in the 21st century as high school is today. And, my friends, that will change the face and future of America. William J. Clinton college children school Let us all take more responsibility not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country. William J. Clinton encouragement success country In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything. William J. Clinton self-improvement business motivational A world without walls is the only sustainable world. . . . If the world is dominated by people who believe that their races, their religions, their ethnic differences are the most important factors, then a huge number of people will perish in this century. William J. Clinton wall race believe Sometimes I think the environment in which we operate is entirely too secular. The fact that we have freedom of religion doesn't mean we need to try to have freedom from religion William J. Clinton freedom religious christian I have never had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. I've never had an affair with her. William J. Clinton dumb humorous stupid Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate our president [Barack Obama] and a lot of other Democrats. William J. Clinton party hate president If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees. William J. Clinton government war people Only the police should have handguns. William J. Clinton police gun should-have A great democracy doesn't make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon. William J. Clinton assault-weapons vote democracy Shakespeare wrote, Einstein thought, Ataturk built. William J. Clinton ataturk built Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all. William J. Clinton bipolar helpful healing Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they came yesterday or walked this land a thousand years ago our great challenge for the 21st century is to find a way to be One America. We can meet all the other challenges if we can go forward as One America. William J. Clinton slave-ships islands years Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. William J. Clinton opposing-views values strength We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more. William J. Clinton common-humanity differences working-together African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do. William J. Clinton african-american stupid night This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank, be a good investment for them, for their children, for their grandchildren, and they would directly contribute to revitalizing a big sector of middle-class wages in America and making our country more productive, so that we could create more opportunity. But I think that we could get a lot of grassroots support from, like, local chambers of commerce and other things if they understood exactly how this infrastructure bank would work. William J. Clinton opportunity country children I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time - never. These allegations are false. William J. Clinton allegations missing lying
