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I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.

I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.

William J. Clinton
Inspirational, Funny, Marijuana

Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening.

William J. Clinton
People, Listening, President

I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.

William J. Clinton
Gun, Support, Nra

The problem with ideology is if you got an ideology, you already got your mind made up, you know all the answers, and that makes evidence irrelevant and argument a waste of time, so you tend to govern by assertion and attack. The problem with that is that discourages thinking and gives you bad results.

William J. Clinton
Thinking, Giving, Mind
"Bill Clinton talks about common good, challenging GOP". William J. Clinton's speech at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., www.rawstory.com. October 18, 2006.

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.

William J. Clinton
Should Have, People, Perfect
William J. Clinton's Dole Lecture at University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, archive.news.ku.edu. May 21, 2004.

I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.

William J. Clinton
Funny, Humorous, Party
"Statement on Congressional Action on the Foreign Operations". William J. "Bill" Clinton's remarks at a Reception for Representative Martin T. Meehan in Lowell, Massachusetts, www.govrecords.org. October 20, 2000.

The most powerful people on earth are focus groups.

William J. Clinton
Powerful, People, Focus

I still believe in a place called Hope.

William J. Clinton
Hope, Believe, America
"A Place Called Hope". William J. "Bill" Clinton's speech to the 1992 Democratic National Convention accepting the Democratic nomination for President, July 16, 1992.

Just because you can't do everything, it doesn't mean you shouldn't do what you can.

William J. Clinton
Mean

Think of the great spirits of the last 50 years: Ghandi killed, not by a Pakistani Muslim, but one of his own Hindus, who hated him because he wanted India for the Muslims, the Sikhs, for everybody; Sadat, killed by the organization that Mr. bin Laden's No. 2 heads now, not by an Israeli, but by an Egyptian. My friend Yitzhak Rabin -- after a lifetime defending Israel, killed -- not by a Palestinian terrorist, but an angry Israeli because he wanted to lay down arms and take up peace... Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity.

William J. Clinton
Thinking, Israel, Years

I want our nation to take responsibility to make sure that every single child can look out the window in the morning and see a whole community getting up and going to work. We want these young people to know the thrill of the first paycheck, the challenge of starting that first business, the pride in following in a parent's footsteps.

William J. Clinton
Morning, Children, Responsibility

We have a moral obligation to make sure the people who are being required to work have the opportunity to work. We must make sure the jobs are there.

William J. Clinton
Jobs, Opportunity, People
"President Clinton Accepts Renomination at 1996 Democratic National Convention". archives.nbclearn.com. August 30, 1996.

Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We - the American people - we are the solution.

William J. Clinton
Government, People, Problem
"Donald Trump's inaugural 'carnage' speech chills TV pundits from CNN to Fox" by Verne Gay, www.newsday.com. January 20, 2017.

We [Democrats] have got to be strong. When we look weak in a time where people feel insecure, we lose. when people feel uncertain, they'd rather have somebody who's strong and wrong than somebody who's weak and right.

William J. Clinton
Strong, Insecure, People

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

William J. Clinton
Motivational, Business, Self Improvement
Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.514, Best Books on

Abortion should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare.

William J. Clinton
Abortion, Safe, Should
"President Bill Clinton", www.cnn.com. 1996.

The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you believe in and fight for it. If you lose, don't give up. If you win, raise the bar, and then rare back and do something else. And remember that, with the accumulation of years, our responsibilities to the future grow greater, not less.

William J. Clinton
Success, Giving Up, Regret

What we need to do is to have a sensible approach to immigration. It needs to be open. It needs to be non-dogmatic and non-bigoted. We need to be firm but reasonable in the way we deal with the problem of illegal immigration. And we need to try to get as many of our immigrants who want to do so to become citizens as quickly as possible so that the American people will all see that this is a part of the process of American history, which is a good one for our country.

William J. Clinton
Country, People, Trying

Today's possibilities are not tomorrows guarantees.

William J. Clinton
Today, Guarantees, Tomorrow

I think what breaks people is not adversity; what breaks people is thinking that tomorrow is going to be just like yesterday. That's what's numbing - if you think you can't change, you can't be better. And I didn't like that.

William J. Clinton
Adversity, Thinking, Yesterday
Source: www.esquire.com

There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children.

William J. Clinton
Children, Future, Safety
Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2909, Best Books on

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
Dream, Community, Presidential

Four years ago nobody but nuclear physicists had ever heard of the Internet. Today even my cat, Socks, has his own web page. I'm amazed at that. I meet kids all the time, been talking to my cat on the Internet.

William J. Clinton
Cat, Kids, Science
Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1968, Best Books on

I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.

William J. Clinton
Jobs, Political, Missing

The risk is that as we come out of this recession, we'll have so much debt to finance, we'll either have to have inflation or very high interest rates to continue to borrow the money, or both. That's a risk.

William J. Clinton
Risk, Debt, Finance
Source: www.foxnews.com