Bill Clinton

What are the needs of the world? What can I do that won't be done if I don't do it?

ABC Primetime Live interview during opening of his presidential library in Little Rock, Ark., November 2004, 2004

People like you always help the far-right, because you like to hurt people, and you like to talk about how bad people are and all their personal failings.

On the emphasis in the news media on the Starr investigation and the Lewinsky affair (June 22, 2004) Panorama interview, 2004

Shakespeare wrote, Einstein thought, Atatürk built.

Address to the International Trade Organization, as quoted in Hellenic Resources Net (January 5, 2000), 2000

It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the—if he—if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement. ... Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true.

Grand jury testimony (August 17, 1998), answering questions about his attorney's description of an affidavit by Monica Lewinsky, 1998

Indeed, I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible. But I told the grand jury today and I say to you now that at no time did I ask anyone to lie, to hide or destroy evidence or to take any other unlawful action.

Televised address on August 17, 1998 CNN transcript, 1998

Now, I have to go back to work on my State of the Union speech. And I worked on it until pretty late last night. I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time, never. These allegations are false, and I need to go back to work for the American people.

Clinton denying that he had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky., 1998

We know that if this can be done in Boston, it can be done in every community, in every neighborhood of every size in the United States. And we ask the United States Congress to do what you've done here in Massachusetts: cross all party lines, throw politics away, throw the speeches in the trash can, join hands. Let's do what works and make America the safe place it has to be.

Address at the Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts; as quoted by Allison Mitchell, “Clinton Urges Campaign Against Youth Crime”, The New York Times, (February 20, 1997), Section B, Page 9, 1997

Webb, if I put you over at Justice I want you to find the answers to two questions for me. One, who killed JFK? And two, are there UFOs?

To Webster Hubbell during his interview for Attorney General, 1992, according to Hubbell's book Friends in High Places (1997), 1997

The last time I checked, the Constitution said, 'of the people, by the people and for the people.' That's what the Declaration of Independence says.

From a campaign speech given in California. Quoted in Investor's Business Daily October 25, 1996, 1996

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

Remarks at the Dedication of the Thomas J. Dodd Archives and Research Center in Storrs, Connecticut, October 15, 1995, 1995

Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.

First inaugural address (January 20, 1993), Washington, D.C., 1993

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

First inaugural address (January 20, 1993), Washington, D.C., 1993

When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two -- and didn't like it -- and didn't inhale and never tried inhaling again.

Television interview (March 1992), quoted in the New York Times (31 March 1992) realone audio file, 1992

(George H. W. Bush) won't take the lead in protecting the environment and creating new jobs in environmental technologies for the 21st century, but I will. And you know what else? He doesn't have Al Gore, and I do.

"A Place Called Hope," speech to the 1992 Democratic National Convention accepting the Democratic nomination for President (July 16, 1992), 1992

I end tonight where it all began for me: I still believe in a place called Hope.

"A Place Called Hope" (July 16, 1992), 1992