Bill Clinton: (on perseverance) 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.
Bill Clinton: I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life- ever.
Bill Clinton: Character is a journey, not a destination.
Bill Clinton: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.
Clinton was inducted into the fraternity Alpha Phi Omega.
The term Clintonomics was created to describe and decry the economic policies the Clinton Administration.
Clinton considered repealing the Twenty Second Constitutional Amendment, which limits presidents to two elected terms, in the event of a terrorist attack.
Clinton was often called "The MTV President," sometimes negatively.
Bill Clinton considers the Oslo Accords, a treaty helped bring about between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, his proudest accomplishment as president.
In 1999, Clinton and congress presented a budget that gave America it's first budget surplus in 30 years.
He was the first Democrat to serve two complete terms since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who served as president from 1933 until he died in 1945.
Clinton made the following famous statement during his grand jury testimony on the Monica Lewinsky affair: "It depends on what the meaning of the words 'is' is."
One of Clinton's goals while he was in office was to create a Universal Healthcare System in the United States.
Along with former president George H.W. Bush he led a nationwide effort to provide relief to countries devastated by the Tsunami of late 2004. He again teamed up with his predecessor in September 2005 to help coordinate private donations to hurricane relief.
He was elected governor of Arkansas in 1978, but lost his bid for re-election in 1980. However, he ran again in 1982 and won. He was elected governor of Arkansas a grand total of five times.
According to Time Magazine, at age 16, he beat out over 1,000 other boys to win a mock state senate seat. He got to go to Washington D.C. where he shook hands wth his idol, President John F. Kennedy.
He was the first baby boomer president.
Father of Chelsea and Barbrea Clinton.
Clinton plays both the tenor and soprano saxophone and demonstrated his abilities many times on the campaign trail. He also collects saxophones, both miniature and life-sized.
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