Quotes by William J. Clinton

When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

I still believe in a place called Hope.

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. Its fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

President Obamas record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

I havent eaten at a McDonalds since I became President.

I married my best friend. I was still in awe after more than four years of being around her at how smart and strong and loving and caring she was. And I really hoped that her choosing me and rejecting my advice to pursue her own career was a decision she would never regret.

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

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

I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.

Where are the jobs going to come from? Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Wheres the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.

When I became president with a commitment to reform health care, Hillary was a natural to head the health care task force. You all know we failed because we couldnt break a Senate filibuster. Hillary immediately went to work on solving the problems the bill sought to address one by one.

In 1979, just after I became governor, I asked Hillary to chair a rural health committee to help expand health care to isolated farm and mountain areas. They recommended to do that partly by deploying trained nurse practitioners in places with no doctors to provide primary care they were trained to provide.

When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobodys right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.

In todays knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.

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

If you live long enough, youll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, youll be a better person. Its how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in. If you want a youre on your own, winner take all society you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibilities - a were all in it together society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.