Bill Clinton Country Quotations

I think that the country needs a debate that's not a screaming match. . . . And I think too many times we have these arguments on these talk shows where they're trying to get ratings by generating heat, when we ought to be trying to generate more light.

I think that we ought to say in this area that we do not intend to stop working until America is the safest big country in the world,

I will relinquish my office -- doing so with a heart filled with gratitude; gratitude to the American people for the chance to serve and to leave our country with more opportunity, stronger bonds of community and a more positive impact in the larger world, at the dawn of a new century and a whole new aspect of human affairs.

There is nothing patriotic about hating your country or pretending that you can love your country but despise your government.

We cannot allow them to have a hundred nuclear weapons. We cannot allow a country to, in effect, become the bomb-seller of the world because they're in a snit, and because they can't grow a crop.

You get different and better questions if the people asking the questions represent America and the world, ... Every one of us filters the world through the prism of our own experience. The press corps should look like the country they are reporting to.

We should be gratified and happy in this holiday season that America is safer, but we should be resolved to make it the safest big country in the world,

This country is still too dangerous. . . . The crime rate is still too high. The level of violence we put up with is still unacceptable.

There may come a time when we elect a president at age 45 or 50, and then 20 years later the country comes up against the same kind of problems the president faced before. People would like to bring that man or woman back but they would have no way to do so.

There's a lot of interest in our country and how we're dealing with a lot of the challenges of the new century.

It might be quite good, because it might be sobering for the country to realize we're in a completely new era.

The feeling about them and about our country has just soared,

I must be the only person in America that every time -- I pay the maximum tax rates -- every time I sign that tax form, I smile. I thank God I live in a country that gave me a chance to make the money I do.

I'm having to become quite an expert at this business of asking for forgiveness, and it gets a little easier the more you do it. And if you have a family, an administration, a Congress and a whole country to ask, you're going to get a lot of practice.

If you live in a country where you're never required to take responsibility for yourself, where you never even have to ask whether there's something you should be doing to solve your own problems, then people are kept in a kind of a permanent state o

I really believe one of the reasons the American people gave me a second term was to take the tough decisions in the next four years that will carry our country through the next fifty years.

I believe it is unnecessary and unwise to adopt a balanced budget amendment that could cripple our country in time of crisis later on, and force unwanted results such as judges halting Social Security checks or increasing taxes, ... hyperbolic.