Quotes from Bill Clinton

If one candidate is appealing to your fears, and the other one's appealing to your hopes, you'd better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope!

In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . .

Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service...

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

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

Edgar Wayburn has worked to preserve the most breath-taking examples of the American landscape. In fact, over the course of more than a half-century, both as President of the Sierra Club and as a private citizen, he has saved more of our wilderness than any person alive.

The First Amendment does not require students to leave their religion at the schoolhouse door. … If students can wear T-shirts advertising sports teams, rock groups or politicians, they can also wear T-shirts that promote religion. … Religion is too important to our history and our heritage for us to keep it out of our schools.

You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. ... You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything.

We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.

from Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power...

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

When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.