Quote

We've had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington's second term, when it was obvious that he would be the first and only consensus president.

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
Would
Politics
Division
Term
George
American
Dawn
Actually
Washington
President
Basically
Partisan
America
Obvious
Partisans
Firsts
Periods
Meanness
First
Second
Consensus

More quotes by William J. Clinton

Image
We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither.
William J. Clinton
Image
I would never approach a small-breasted woman.
William J. Clinton
Image
I'm someone who had a deep emotional attachment to 'Starsky and Hutch.'
William J. Clinton
Image
The economy has produced 6.1 million jobs since I became president, and if Michael Jordan comes back to the Bulls, it will be 6,100,001 jobs.
William J. Clinton
Image
If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better, you know it's hard and some people think it's boring. Speeches like this are fun, actually doing the work is hard.
William J. Clinton
Image
I think you have you to give people the facts [about global warming], and then you have to tell them, this is not like drinking Castor Oil. There is a, an economically exciting way for us to create a whole new generation of American jobs without costing them an enormous amount of money or forcing them to change their lifestyle.
William J. Clinton
Image
Presidents are not permitted to have personal feelings.
William J. Clinton
Image
If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.
William J. Clinton
Image
Some day we hope to liberate every man on earth from the tendency as old as human history to identify our strength and manhood with the ability to control the lives, limit the chances, and doom the dreams of women and girls.
William J. Clinton
Image
You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity.
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 established order has too many self-protecting economic entities, and not enough people who yet understand what it takes to change.
William J. Clinton
Image
I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.
William J. Clinton
Image
There's nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.
William J. Clinton
Image
The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.
William J. Clinton
Image
Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life
William J. Clinton
Image
The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
William J. Clinton
Image
I did a lot of work on energy efficiency at the White House. By the time I left we had taken the equivalent of six hundred cars a year off the road in reduced greenhouse gas emissions just in the White House complex.
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
Together, people with good hearts and fine minds can move the world.
William J. Clinton