William J. Clinton Quotes About Evidence

Quotes about: Evidence

• Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.

  William J. Clinton

  Religion, Should, Evidence

• I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.

  William J. Clinton

  Funny, Humorous, Party

  "Statement on Congressional Action on the Foreign Operations". William J. "Bill" Clinton's remarks at a Reception for Representative Martin T. Meehan in Lowell, Massachusetts, www.govrecords.org. October 20, 2000.

• The problem with any ideology is that it gives you the answer before you examine the evidence.

  William J. Clinton

  Giving, Answers, Problem

• 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

  Government, Common Sense, Political

  William J. Clinton “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1995, Bk. 1, January 1 to June 30, 1995”, Government Printing Office

• I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Government, Facts

• On the Glass-Steagall thing, like I said, if you could demonstrate to me that it was a mistake, I'd be glad to look at the evidence. But I can't blame [the Republicans]. This wasn't something they forced me into. I really believed that given the level of oversight of banks and their ability to have more patient capital, if you made it possible for [banks] to go into the investment banking business as continental European investment banks could always do, that it might give us a more stable source of long-term investment.

  William J. Clinton

  Mistake, Glasses, Long

• There is a huge body of business evidence now showing that energy savings give better service at lower cost with higher profit. We have to tear down barriers to successful markets and we have to create incentives to enter them.

  William J. Clinton

  Successful, Giving, Tears

  Clinton, William J (1998). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1997”, p.1412, Best Books on

• Simply put, no society can truly flourish if it stifles the dreams and productivity of half its population. Happily, I see evidence all over the world that women are gaining social and economic power that they never had before. This is good news.

  William J. Clinton

  Dream, Population, News

• I think the Republicans and conservatives generally were alienated by America's unsuccessful effort in Vietnam, and a lot of them, as Henry Kissinger admitted the other day, never got over President Nixon's impeachment, and didn't think, even though there was a pattern of illegal conduct there, sanctioned by the White House and proved by the tapes and other documentary evidence and testimony, they didn't believe that the impeachment was justified, and they didn't think he should have resigned.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• The problem with ideology is if you got an ideology, you already got your mind made up, you know all the answers, and that makes evidence irrelevant and argument a waste of time, so you tend to govern by assertion and attack. The problem with that is that discourages thinking and gives you bad results.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, Giving, Mind

  "Bill Clinton talks about common good, challenging GOP". William J. Clinton's speech at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., www.rawstory.com. October 18, 2006.

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