William J. Clinton Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

  William J. Clinton

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Attitude

• On Earth Day I made a commitment to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by the year 2000. And I asked for a blueprint on how to achieve this goal. In concert with all other nations, we simply must halt global warming. It is a threat to our health, to our ecology, and to our economy. I know that the precise magnitude and patterns of climate change cannot be fully predicted. But global warming clearly is a growing, long-term threat with profound consequences. And make no mistake about it, it will take decades to reverse.

  William J. Clinton

  Mistake, Commitment, Years

• I made a big mistake. It is indefensible and I am sorry.

  William J. Clinton

  Sorry, Mistake, Made

  "House Leaders Will Discuss Starr Report", www.cnn.com. September 4, 1998.

• Only a fool does not look to explain his mistakes.

  William J. Clinton

  Mistake, Doe, Looks

• I mean, you know, this idea that somebody we disagree with on economic or social policy or something we have to turn into some kind of ogre or demon, I think, is a mistake. I mean, it's like telling the American people or half the American people that don't agree with you they're all fools. That's just not true.

  William J. Clinton

  Mistake, Mean, Thinking

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 1, 2005.

• Most of the major mistakes I made in my life, I made when I was too tired to know what I was doing - both personally and professionally.

  William J. Clinton

  Mistake, Tired, Made

• I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.

  William J. Clinton

  Mistake, Self, Trying

• You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.

  William J. Clinton

  Mistake, President, Knows

  "Bill Clinton on Bush uranium line: 'Everybody makes mistakes'", www.cnn.com. July 23, 2003.

• 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

• I know that the precise magnitude and patterns of climate change cannot be fully predicted. But global warming clearly is a growing, long-term threat with profound consequences. And make no mistake about it, it will take decades to reverse.

  William J. Clinton

  Mistake, Long, Profound

  William J. Clinton “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1993, Bk. 2, August 1 to December 31, 1993”, Government Printing Office

• There's nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.

  William J. Clinton

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Encores

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