Quote

Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening.

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
Little
Keeper
Like
Keepers
People
Cemetery
Grounds
Plenty
Listening
President
Littles

More quotes by William J. Clinton

Image
The most ethical administration in the history of the Republic.
William J. Clinton
Image
We're not talking about a few rooms here with delicate personal matters involved.
William J. Clinton
Image
What works in the real world is cooperation.
William J. Clinton
Image
Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug.
William J. Clinton
Image
Along the way they're (MLB) going to lose millions of more American fans.
William J. Clinton
Image
The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the end, all the world's wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of the human spirit.
William J. Clinton
Image
I'm very proud that the first bill I had the opportunity to sign into law as President was the Family and Medical Leave Act No parent should ever have to choose between work and family between earning a decent wage and caring for a child.
William J. Clinton
Image
I am committed to curbing the influence of money in our political system.
William J. Clinton
Image
You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any other country in the world. You vote for me and I'll give you family values.
William J. Clinton
Image
North Koreans are irrational to some extent, but I don't think they're totally irrational. I think they watch American cable channels. I think they watch the European cable channels. I think they, their decision makers keep up more than we know. And I think they want us to think they're a little crazy.
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
Americans - not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George - we've always been of two minds about the government, which is why the framers wrote the Constitution the way they did.
William J. Clinton
Image
You can't blame the administration and the Republicans for taking us back to deficits, for spending the Social Security surplus and assaulting the environment. That's what they promised to do in the last election.
William J. Clinton
Image
One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.
William J. Clinton
Image
We need to help younger people recognize their own capacity to do good, and help them discover the rewards of generosity.
William J. Clinton
Image
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.
William J. Clinton
Image
The future belongs to those who are creative collaborators
William J. Clinton
Image
Even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.
William J. Clinton
Image
...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.
William J. Clinton
Image
Sincerity? I can fake that.
William J. Clinton