Clinton Quotes

• Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.

  Jim Cooper

  Thinking, Foundation, Tanks

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• Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent.

  Russell Means

  School, People, Abhorrent

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• President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.

  Jim Cooper

  Government, President, Able

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• Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion.

  John Spratt

  Running, Country, Years

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• The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn't play, they could strangle us in our crib.

  Brit Hume

  Struggle, Thinking, Play

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• If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.

  Sonny Bono

  Men, Criminals, Bob

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• It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.

  Paul Begala

  House, Citizens, Answers

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• People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.'

  Robert Teeter

  Son, People, Guy

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• I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Thinking, Very Cool, Involved

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• It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.

  Warren Christopher

  Dream, Europe, President

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• The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

  Morley Safer

  Bills, Republican, Wells

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• Mitt Romney is a true Mormon. John Edwards and Bill Clinton are not real Mormons. It was not 'Brigham Young' they were chanting. It was 'Bring 'em young.

  Evan Sayet

  Real, Ems, Bills

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• We make a lot of fun at President Clinton's expense. But this transition is going to be tough because it's been 25 years since this guy has gotten laid in the private sector.

  David Letterman

  Fun, Years, Guy

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• Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

  Dick Armey

  Sound, Marxist, Bother

  Interview with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. 1993.

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• I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere.

  Morley Safer

  Thinking, Personality, Littles

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• As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.

  Mark Shields

  Vietnam, Bills, Chance

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• I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.

  John Podesta

  Wise, Believe, President

  "Democratic fund-raiser takes Fifth Amendment in pardons probe" by March 1, 2001, www.cnn.com. March 1, 2001.

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• From Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Example, Speech

  William J. "Bill" Clinton's prime-time speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.npr.org. August 27, 2008.

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• Title IX is huge for sports but also its helped move our nation to a place where we can accept women in the workforce as well. Its opened up a lot of jobs for women. We had a female run for president in Hillary Clinton.

  Maya Moore

  Sports, Running, Jobs

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• So I would say Reagan was the best, and certainly Clinton the worst.

  Pat Boone

  Worst

  Interview with Wes Vernon, www.renewamerica.com. January 9, 2006.

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• The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Wings, Facts, Inspired

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• Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down.

  Craig Kilborn

  Bills, Nostalgic, Bigs

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• Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show.

  Bill Maher

  White, Class, House

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• If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.

  Dennis Miller

  Politics, Problem, Terrorism

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• Yes, Bill Clinton is a big flirt.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Flirty, Flirting, Bills

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