President Bill Clinton was born on this day in 1946. Here are some of my favorite quotes from him:
“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.”
“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.”
“Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it’s the time when they most need to think.”
“It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.”
“Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.”
“Character is a journey, not a destination.”
“Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It’s fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.”
“When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody’s right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.”
“Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.”
“When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities – locally, nationally and globally – that share the characteristics of all successful communities.”
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