Clinton Quotations | Page 3

Bush has been more open to having more of a bipartisan board than I've seen before. I didn't even give a moment's thought that Clinton would reappoint me.

Based on (Wright's) determination that Jones failed to show any adverse job impact to her, whether Clinton had a sexual affair with Lewinsky is irrelevant.

I can tell you categorically they are not going to be the filter. I know who the filters are, ... They're in the White House and the Justice Department as they were in the Clinton administration.

If only AFL-CIO President Sweeney and President Clinton hadn't persuaded the labor movement to throw its support behind Gore last October, when his campaign was floundering.

If I was President Clinton I would want to come and clear the air and answer these questions that are in the mind of the public. This is not going to go away easily, so the best way to answer this is to be straightforward and tell the truth,

Getting help from the U.S. government to open markets to get the right to fly to other countries is important to us, ... The Clinton administration has done a fine job of doing this.

Four years ago Clinton hadn't had his problems, ... I also think that sometimes we react to an election late. Character probably should have been a concern four years ago and it wasn't. I think the American voters are saying, 'We're not going to make that mistake again this time.'

fundamentally a referendum within our party on whether we're going to build on the Clinton transformation in our party in 1992 that reassured people we were strong on defense, we were fiscally responsible, we cared about values, we were interested in cutting taxes for the middle class and working with business to create jobs.

If Bill Clinton was the British prime minister, we wouldn't be in the fix we're in,

If Bill Clinton could have taken care of this a long time ago with a quiet apology, it would have been all water under the bridge ... He alone is responsible for the route it has taken.

For the president to resign now would be wrong, ... President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn't debase the office with an impulsive overreaction.

If it comes across that Clinton is weaseling the law and obscuring the truth, I think he's in more trouble.

If it turns out that the report gets released and it smells anything like a typical Clinton cover-up, we're going to activate our 1 million members. We're keeping an eye on it right now.

If that were the case, then Bill Clinton would have never been president.

He was the go-to person in the Clinton White House.

He is behaving too loudly on this -- too loudly ... Well, now (some are saying) let us flood it all with planes and bombs. No, frankly speaking, it is not like Clinton at all.

He increased his popular vote total by 11.6 million votes since 2000. That's four-and-a-half times the increase that President Clinton got between '92 and '96.

He gives 110 percent. What impresses me the most about Clinton is when he doesn't have the ball. It's when he's protecting the passer, when he's blocking for a receiver downfield. He's always going. It's very impressive. He's not the biggest guy (5-11, 205), yet he plays like a big guy. He can do everything.

He gets credit in having turned Bill Clinton into a real believer on climate change. Bush has said he needs to be judged by Texas, and if you judge him by Texas, the record is appalling.

We expect to prove that the studies on which the Clinton administration based its ban were flawed and highly prejudiced. What's more, in the previous decision-making process, the public was prevented from participating as fully as the law allows. The agreement helps ensure that that won't happen this time around.

Whatever happens, it will take years to repair the damage President Clinton has done to his office and his country,

We're on the record as saying ... that Mr. Clinton and his surrogates have already engaged in perjury, subornation of perjury and obstruct of justice and that evidence gives us a right to a legal presumption that Mr. Clinton's entire case is weak and unfounded. Therefore, there was error and the case should go to a jury.

What I liked about Clinton is what I like about Rudy, strange as that may sound: their approach to crime and family responsibility.

To get fast-track through Congress, Speaker Gingrich and President Clinton are wheeling and dealing like we've never seen before,

Have we been cryptic? Right-wingers said Clinton was a lying, unscrupulous traveling salesman. It turned out he was a lying, unscrupulous traveling salesman. Now liberals scratch their heads demanding to know: So what was it about him you didn't like?

He's been very clear like senator Clinton and many people of both sides of the aisle ... he's legitimately concerned about foreign-state ownership of ports.

There aren't many more elections to win in New York City and we'll take over the Senate by making the inroads that Senator Clinton and Chuck Schumer made in upstate New York.

Under Clinton, the New York Times called surveillance a necessity. Under the Echelon program, there was eavesdropping surveillance in the Clinton years, under Reagan, even under Carter and under the first President Bush.

He wasn't considered a Clinton person, although he obviously supported him in '92.

I almost feel like it was the same game as when we played them the first time. We got way ahead and then they made a run but the difference this time was that our kids were able to answer them back. We're getting better. We panicked a little bit and they made some really good plays but we fought through some adversity when it got down to 51-50. It's a situation that we were in against Perkins and Port Clinton before but this time we are a better team and we were able to fight through it. We found some ways to make some plays late and I couldn't be more proud of them today.

He wanted to beat Hillary Clinton in an election. But he clearly didn't want to be a U.S. senator,

I was also surprised at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to demagogue against the rights of gun owners, for instance.

I suspect unconscious bias has been far more of a factor for President Obama than overt racism and will also be a challenge for Hillary Rodham Clinton if she runs for president again.

I think it's just simply not accurate to give Al Gore and Bill Clinton all of the credit for a successful economy, ... The main thing was the engine that is the American economy, 270 million Americans who get up every day and go to work out there and are the ones who have really generated this enormous wealth.

I think the Obama administration, whether it's in his first term or second term, is totally committed to the search for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and we greatly appreciate the president's effort, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the first administration, now Secretary of State John Kerry.

I thought Clinton was going to get hit in the mouth for a 7-yard loss.

I think the concerns about free speech in areas where the president is speaking long pre-date Bush. They were an issue in the Clinton administration, the first Bush administration and began as an issue during Reagan. I do think the ACLU has legitimate concerns about the breadth of the new language and how it could be applied.

I think Bill Clinton and Al Gore will be present in the 2004 campaign. I think they're both going to help us a lot.

I think an integral part of the public continuing to support Bill Clinton in this situation is that Hillary Clinton still supports Bill Clinton.

I think actually the Clinton presidency is going to be hurt enough so that he is going to have more trouble coming through with that contribution to the IMF.

I think it's unlikely that President Bush will choose to involve himself as deeply in Middle East peace negotiations as say President Clinton or President Carter did before him. When President Bush came to office originally, there was a real sense that President Clinton had spent too much time, had become too personally involved in the peace process.

I think it's wrong, whether it's President Clinton or President Bush, to take this extraordinary action without the direct support and consultation of the U.S. Congress as well as the U.N.,

I was able to demonstrate how important it is to be at the front of the line as the leader of, one of the two Senate leaders, when I was actually in the Oval Office and asked President Clinton to take Ellsworth off the base-closing list. He did. He did because I'm leader,

It is a subject of discussion with them and was raised both when President Clinton and I were in Pakistan and in Greece recently, ... We are pressing them on it, but we are not considering sanctions.

It is as if Clinton had called one of the most respected character witnesses in all of U.S. history to testify that the primal urge has a most distinguished presidential pedigree.

It is a shame that President Clinton is losing his First Amendment rights. We think this is a big mistake. How else would we have known that President Clinton was working behind the scenes to support the Dubai port deal while Sen. Clinton was trying to block it?

It is a relationship of respect. Clinton liked to mine us for money, but we have accomplished more with this administration than we ever did with Clinton.

Is Bill Clinton serving as a lobbyist and public-relations guru to the government of Dubai? It sure looks like it.

I respect her process, and Mrs. Clinton is going to have to take the time she needs,

I respectfully submit that the alleged abuses by President Clinton do not indicate that he is a danger to the nation, ... Lying to the public and to his cabinet and aids is disgraceful, but if we would impeach all officials who lie about personal or official matters, I fear that the halls of government would be seriously depleted.

I respect Clinton a heck of a lot more because he's been able to keep his mind on the events going on in the world and not just the problems at home.

Our hearts go out to the families of the victims. As President Clinton has said, America stands ready to help in any way we can.

Over eight years, we developed very good relations with President Clinton and Vice President Gore, and I look forward to developing the same relations with President-elect Bush,

Over the next months Mrs. Clinton will travel throughout the state, meeting with New Yorkers in small groups and listening to them discuss the issues that concern them the most. Hillary Clinton is eager to begin this tour and looks forward to listening to New Yorkers across the state.

Our struggle is for liberation and right of self- determination, a right given to oppressed nations by the U.N. Charter. President Clinton must distinguish between the oppressed and the oppressor.

Right now, the EC commission is more aggressive than either the Clinton administration or the Bush administration when it comes to antitrust issues.

Republicans may be second-guessing themselves on the decision to engage Sen. Clinton since the more attention she gets, the more favorable voters find her.

Plan to see Sen. Clinton - post-2006 - spending a lot of time in the Midwest.

President Bush maintains an approval on the economy in the mid-forties -- exactly what Clinton had at the end of 1995 and above what Reagan had in 1983.

President Bush had the highest approval ratings ever after Desert Storm. Then Clinton took a role leading the party and won the presidency.

President Bill Clinton has less rights than any citizen of the United States,

Part of my surprise comes from having come of age while Bill Clinton was president - and I found it as unfathomable then as I do now that some Republicans hate now and hated then President Clinton as much as they did. I found the politics of personal attack really distasteful - and I resolved then that I would not treat the president like that. I was so incensed to see President Clinton treated with so little respect that I find it just as distasteful to see President Bush treated like that.

Our last words to you, which are the words I began with: William Jefferson Clinton is not guilty of the charges that have been brought against him, he did not commit perjury, he did not commit obstruction of justice, he must not be removed from office,

People like Hillary Clinton think you grow the economy by growing Washington.

I will take my years in Washington and New York state and compare it with Clinton any day, on substance, ... Forget about all the glitz and glamour. I've built up a record that qualifies me to do this run. You need a credible candidate with a strong background and no baggage.

I wonder if all the disclosures about Kennedy's tawdry nature in the White House -- about his affairs -- has something to do with it, ... I think that the comparisons being drawn between Clinton and Kennedy do not look favorably on either of them, and I think people may have lost some of their respect for Kennedy.

I think President Clinton would have liked to have traveled a lot in early '93 and reconnect with people. But the fact is, the administration was so disorganized and they were so unfocused that he didn't have the luxury of being able to travel.

I think President Clinton is a strong defender of the American interests, and I am a strong defender of the Chinese interests, ... But despite that, we still can have very friendly exchanges of views and discussion. And I think that is democracy.

It does share the (Clinton) formula in that essentially, the North Koreans, for their breaking out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and breaking their agreement with the Clinton administration, are going to get a long list of goodies.

I think he's done something that I think President Clinton did not do in midterm races or even in his own re-election,

I think Gore was over-reacting in some ways to the criticism that Clinton hadn't pushed hard enough.

I think former President Clinton and even Newt Gingrich have said it was a mistake to repeal Glass Steagall.

I think most Americans still hope for a peaceful and beneficial future with China. As (former) President (Bill) Clinton once said, we have more to fear from a poor weak China than from a rich and democratic China.

I think many people would be disappointed to learn that. But I think there is such a deep appreciation for the many contributions that President Clinton has made ... that there would also be a sense of proportion about it.

Judge Wright's dismissal of the suit against President Clinton should now be the final word on what has become an unprecedented partisan witch hunt of one of the most popular and successful presidents of the 20th century.

It is bitterly ironic that the Clinton administration is rushing to send Elian Gonzalez back to a country that has just been singled out by the U.N. for its systematic violation of human rights.

I think that Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, all those states actually look pretty good for Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump in a church getting interrupted by the pastor because he started attacking Hillary Clinton.

I actually think that her [Hillary Clinton] numbers are artificially low.

Against these two [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] I would [vote], but I never voted for [Barack Obama]. I always voted third party - the ones who say their gonna jail the bankers.

The 1998 missile strike on the Sudan was an unannounced, unprovoked attack that destroyed that Third World nation's only medicine factory. Yet it provoked no opposition outcry on the left. The Clinton air strike violated every principle of the current liberal critique of Bush foreign policy.

That's the question, certainly, for all our clients on Wall Street. They're resigned to Clinton getting re-elected, but the real issue is if it's not by 10 points, but by 18 or 19 -- if it's the latter, then I think certainly the House will go Democratic, ... The Senate is a tougher case to make, but in a blow out, even the Senate could go.

That's a very important policy. The United States now can be taken to mean the removal of Saddam Hussein, and we believe that President Clinton took a courageous stand.

I was personally angry because President Clinton had, by his disgraceful behavior, jeopardized his administration's historic record of accomplishment, much of which grew out of the principles and programs that he and I and many others had worked on together in the new Democratic movement,

Who knows? Maybe Hillary Clinton saw the band in Park Ridge.

Who knows, it could have been Hillary Clinton herself, doing a Freudian slip during a commercial break on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show,'

William Jefferson Clinton was elected freely, fairly and openly by the American people to be president, ... We dare not reverse that decision without good and just cause.

will not make a decision on sending U.S. troops until we have an agreement in hand and can evaluate whether it meets the conditions President Clinton has outlined.

We were marginalized in the public eye as a presidential party. What Clinton did is an enormous accomplishment. I myself even wondered if we'd do it again.

When it comes to the teapot tempest that is the Hillary Clinton email imbroglio, the real controversy isn't about politics or regulations. It's about journalism and the weak standards employed to manufacture the scandal du jour.

While ads are the big issue, they are not the only issue. I hope Mrs. Clinton is not trying to get some wiggle room here.

Without all of this, ... Jimmy Carter nor Bill Clinton might never have been elected president.

Utah is an exception to the rest of the country mostly because of partisanship. Here, it's 'my party right or wrong.' If Bill Clinton had done the things Bush is doing, his approval ratings in Utah would be in the basement.

We have turned over a complete security plan to the Americans, ... President Clinton himself approved it and was happy with it.

When I first moved into the White House with President Bill Clinton in 1993, there were only 50 existing websites on the World Wide Web.

We give away tens of billions to Brazil, or to one place or another, without thinking. But in those days, to give even a tiny amount to Russia was viewed almost as anathema by many parts of our own society and our political leadership, whether it was the Bush administration or the Clinton administration.

We are hoping to help the middle schools out and give the kids the fundamentals of the game. So that when they get there, they will ready and eventually, those kids will be moving up to the high school. We want coach Mallard to have the end product at Clinton High.

We are delighted that President Clinton has agreed to address our convocation this spring. As our graduates begin their careers in public service, it is fitting that they gain the perspective of someone who has himself had such a long, distinguished public career.

We know that Chinese officials chose to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in the 1996 re-election of the Clinton administration. What we don't know is what they expected to gain from that investment,

Those of you who have tracked this issue closely, most by now have thought that this day would never come. Has anyone performed to a slower, longer, later standard than I in my search for a new Atlantic editor? ... Beginning last April, I began what I called my Hillary Clinton Listening Tour, traveling the country and asking advice on the extreme talent today in journalism.