Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. W
  4. William J. Clinton
  5. Giving

William J. Clinton Quotes about Giving

All William J. Clinton Quotes Abortion Abuse Achievement Adversity Age Aliens Art Balance Blame Business Cancer Caring Challenges Change Character Children Choices Church College Commitment Communication Community Compassion Conflict Constitution Country Creativity Crime Culture Democracy Dignity Discipline Earth Economy Education Effort Energy Environment Evidence Excellence Feelings Fighting Finance Focus Freedom Fun Funny Future Gender Giving quotes Growth Happiness Hard Work Hate Hatred Heart Hell Home Honor House Humanity Hurt Illegal Immigration Immigration Independence Inspirational Inspiring Internet Journey Joy Judgment Justice Knowledge Legacy Liberty Life Listening Lying Making Mistakes Memories Military Morning Motivational Office Opportunity Pain Past Peace Politics Poverty Progress Reality Reflection Religion Responsibility Revolution Risk Running Safety School Science Security September 11 Strategy Struggle Success Teaching Technology Today Tradition Understanding Values Victory Vision Volunteer War Water Wealth Welfare Wife Winning Working Together Worry
The problem with any ideology is that it gives you the answer before you examine the evidence.

The problem with any ideology is that it gives you the answer before you examine the evidence.

William J. Clinton
Giving, Answers, Problem

Our immigration policy is focussed in four areas: First, strengthening border control; second, protecting American jobs by enforcing laws against illegal immigrants at the workplace; third, deporting criminal and deportable aliens; fourth, giving assistance to states who need it, and denying illegal aliens benefits for public services or welfare.

William J. Clinton
Jobs, Law, Giving

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.

Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.

William J. Clinton
Funny, Stupid, Giving

The purpose of politics is to give people tools to make the most of their lives.

William J. Clinton
People, Giving, Tools

On Bill Clinton: I have a simple question: Who's the last President to give you a balanced budget?

William J. Clinton
Simple, Giving, President

Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.

William J. Clinton
Turning 50, Yesterday, Giving

We're [Clinton Foundation] trying to get rapid tests that give you results when you're right there on site at an affordable price. Ninety percent of the HIV-positive people in the world don't know they have the infection. An enormous amount of infections are being perpetrated by people who don't know they themselves are HIV positive.

William J. Clinton
People, Giving, Trying
Source: www.npr.org

Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic.

William J. Clinton
Ideas, People, Giving
William J. "Bill" Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

There is a huge body of business evidence now showing that energy savings give better service at lower cost with higher profit. We have to tear down barriers to successful markets and we have to create incentives to enter them.

William J. Clinton
Successful, Giving, Tears
Clinton, William J (1998). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1997”, p.1412, Best Books on

We still have too many Americans who give in to their fears of those who are different from them. Not so long ago, swastikas were painted on the doors of some African-American members of our Special Forces at Ft. Bragg. They are special forces. They do not deserve to have swastikas on their doors.

William J. Clinton
Doors, Long Ago, Giving

When we give what we can, and give it with joy, we don't just renew the American tradition of giving, we also renew ourselves.

William J. Clinton
Giving, Joy, Tradition
Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2583, Best Books on

We simply cannot afford to give the reigns of government so someone who will double down on trickle down

William J. Clinton
Government, Giving, Reign

You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any other country in the world. You vote for me and I'll give you family values.

William J. Clinton
Country, Children, Giving

Our paradigm now seems to be: Something terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the right to interpret all future events in a way that everyone else in the world must agree with us. And if they don't, they can go straight to hell.

William J. Clinton
Giving, September 11, Way

Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.

William J. Clinton
Discipline, Giving, Structure
Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.1985, Best Books on

There are always going to be people who want to be president, and some days I'd like to give it to them.

William J. Clinton
People, Giving, President

The new energy future is decentralised, entrepreneurial and needs people like you to say 'Give me a clean car, give me solar shingles to put on my roof - give me a clean future'

William J. Clinton
Future, People, Giving