Tag: Bill Clinton
Clinton: Cheney’s Remarks on Iraq ‘Unseemly’
If they hadn’t gone to war in Iraq, none of this would be happening. Mr. Cheney has been incredibly adroit for the last six years or so attacking the administration for not doing an adequate job of cleaning up the mess that he made. And I think it’s unseemly. And I give President Bush, by the way, a lot of credit for trying to stay out of this debate and letting other people work through it.
— Bill Clinton, in an interview with NBC News.
Clinton Sums Up the Political Media
If a policymaker is a political leader and is covered primarily by the political press, there is a craving that borders on addictive to have a storyline,” Clinton said. “And then once people settle on the storyline, there is a craving that borders on blindness to shoehorn every fact, every development, every thing that happens into the story line, even if it’s not the story.
— Bill Clinton, quoted by the Washington Post.
Clinton Says Obama Should Change the Law to Allow people to Keep Their Insurance
I personally believe, even if it takes a change in the law, that the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they’ve got.
The Clintons Don’t Discuss Politics
We’re not nearly as political as everyone thinks we are. We don’t sit around all the time talking about this. We swim in the late afternoon every day. And if either one of us even mentions a political topic we will stop the other one and just talk about the weather or whatever.
— Bill Clinton, in an interview on PBS, about life with Hillary Clinton.
Obama Said America Should Not Act Alone — In 2009
In a world in which threats are more diffuse and missions more complex, America cannot act alone. America alone cannot secure the peace.
— President Obama, quoted by the AP, in his Nobel Peace Prize speech in 2009.
Clinton Digs at Obama with ‘Whine’ Comment
We don’t face beatings, lynchings and shootings for our political beliefs anymore. Martin Luther King did not live and die to hear his heirs whine about political gridlock.
— Bill Clinton, quoted by the Washington Post, on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.
Bill Asks Folks to Give Hillary a Break Already
She’s taking a role in the foundation, she’s writing books, she’s having a little fun being a private citizen for the first time in 20 years.
— Former president Bill Clinton, quoted by the Washington Post, asking for everyone to give her a break over 2016 presidential speculation.
Clinton Beats Mitt in Tweets Per Minute but Not Michelle O
22,087
Highest spike in Tweets per minute during Pres. Bill Clinton’s address to the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, Sept. 5. The peak came at the end of the speech, indicating that audiences can focus for 49 minutes if the material is good. Clinton’s Twitter peak far outdistanced Mitt Romney’s (14,289) but did not surpass First Lady Michelle Obama’s the night before (28,003).
Veggies Fill Bill
He used to be an unapologetic steak man,
And he’d eat anything that came from a fry pan.
But these days Bill Clinton
I watching what he’s eatin,’
Ever since he turned into a vegan.
