Quote

We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons.

William J. Clinton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William J. Clinton
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 19
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Lawyer
Politician
President
Saxophonist
Statesperson
Teacher
Writer
Hope
Arkansas
William Jefferson Clinton
William Jefferson Blythe III
William Jefferson Blythe
William J. Clinton
Clinton
William Jefferson Bill Clinton
William Clinton
President Clinton
President Bill Clinton
Kelindun
William Jefferson
IV Blythe
Bill Klinton
WJC
Every
Horizon
Time
Opportunities
World
Charity
Interdependent
Cutting
Horizons
Somebody
Philanthropic
Opportunity
Shrink
Else
Shrinks
Live
Philanthropy

More quotes by William J. Clinton

Image
Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits.
William J. Clinton
Image
Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We - the American people - we are the solution.
William J. Clinton
Image
Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.
William J. Clinton
Image
To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value.
William J. Clinton
Image
We must continue to deepen our ties to the Americas and the Caribbean, our common work to educate children, fight drugs, strengthen democracy, and increase trade.
William J. Clinton
Image
When I started out in public life there used to be a saying we'd hear from time to time, that every man who runs for public office will claim that he was born in a log cabin he built with his own hands. Well, my mother knew better. And she made sure I did too.
William J. Clinton
Image
You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.
William J. Clinton
Image
Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.
William J. Clinton
Image
Posterity is the world to come the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.
William J. Clinton
Image
One of the main reasons we ought to re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to constructive cooperation... He appointed Republican secretaries of defense, the Army and transportation. He appointed a vice president who ran against him in 2008.
William J. Clinton
Image
Americans long to be united. After 9/11, we all just wanted to be one nation. Not a single American on September the 12, 2001, cared who won the next presidential election.
William J. Clinton
Image
We're [Clinton Foundation] trying to get rapid tests that give you results when you're right there on site at an affordable price. Ninety percent of the HIV-positive people in the world don't know they have the infection. An enormous amount of infections are being perpetrated by people who don't know they themselves are HIV positive.
William J. Clinton
Image
Our immigration policy is focussed in four areas: First, strengthening border control second, protecting American jobs by enforcing laws against illegal immigrants at the workplace third, deporting criminal and deportable aliens fourth, giving assistance to states who need it, and denying illegal aliens benefits for public services or welfare.
William J. Clinton
Image
My major political identity has been as her spouse for the last decade and I like it that way.
William J. Clinton
Image
Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the United States. And the more disease there is, the more political unrest there will be, leading to more Darfurs, which the U.S. will have to pay to fix.
William J. Clinton
Image
That everybody can do something, without regard to how old or young they are, rich or poor or middle class they are, how busy or not busy they are and what level skills they have. Everyone can do something. And everybody should do something. ... And if you do it, you'll be happier.
William J. Clinton
Image
In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
William J. Clinton
Image
By the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions.
William J. Clinton
Image
There seems to be no mainframe explanation for the PC world in which we're living.
William J. Clinton
Image
You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.
William J. Clinton