Clinton Quotes





"I've said I've never broken the drug laws of my country, and that is the absolute truth."

--Bill Clinton, New Orleans Times Picayune, 4/24/92




Q.- "If you had it to do over again, would you inhale?"
A.- "Sure, if I could... I tried before!"

--Bill Clinton, MTV "Choose or Lose" Special, 6/16/92






" Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system."

-- Presidential candidate Bill Clinton, describing his opponent (Federal News Service, 10/28/92)




"There's just no such thing as truth when it comes to him. He just says whatever sounds good and worries about it after the election."

Presidential candidate Bill Clinton describing his opponent, George Bush (Quoted in the American Spectator, 10/28/92)




"The Bush administration continues to coddle China, despite its continuing crackdown on democratic reform, its brutal subjugation of Tibet, its irresponsible export of nuclear and missile technology... Such forbearance on our part might have made sense during the Cold War when China was the counterweight to Soviet power. It makes no sense to play the China card now when our opponents have thrown in their hand."

-- Gov. Bill Clinton, Georgetown University, December 12, 1991.







"The road to tyranny, we must remember, begins with the destruction of the truth."

--Bill Clinton, from a speech at the University of Connecticut, Oct 15, 1997.







"You can't say you love your country and hate your government."

-- Bill Clinton, 1995 (After the OKC bombing)






"A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military."

- - Bill Clinton, 1969 (Letter to the National Guard)






"The other thing we have to do is to take seriously the role in this problem of...older men who prey on underage women...There are consequences to decisions and...one way or the other, people always wind up being held accountable."

--Bill Clinton, June 13, 1996, in a speech endorsing a national effort against teen pregnancy.
(Older men preying on younger women, huh?)





"No one wants to get this (Lewinsky) matter behind us more than I do, except maybe all the rest of the American people,"

--Bill Clinton






" The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people"

--Bill Clinton, during an interview on MTV in 1993




"You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say."

-- Bill Clinton, May 29, 1993, The White House




"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans . . . ."

--William J. Clinton, USA Today, March 11, 1993




When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.... [However, now] there's a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there's too much freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it."

-- Bill Clinton, 3-22-94, MTV's "Enough is Enough"







"There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past,"

-- Bill Clinton, New York Times, November 25, 1997






Bill Clinton, January 27, 1992, speaking about the allegations that he had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers...

"They've been exposed as the trash they are"

Arkansas Gazette




January 1998, Bill Clinton admits under oath in the Paula Jones deposition that he had an affair with Gennifer Flowers.






"African-Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do."

--Bill Clinton on Black Entertainment Television, November 2, 1994







"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is"

-- excerpts from Bill Clinton's grand jury testimony



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