Bill Clinton - We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.

We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.

Bill Clinton Quotes

1. We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.

2. That’s the permanent mission our Founding Fathers left us—moving toward the “more perfect union.

3. He didn't say a word or do an action that did not have a purpose.

4. When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it. I didn't inhale.

5. 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.

6. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured  by what is right with America.

7. If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person.

8. In other words, our constitution was designed by people who were idealistic but not ideological. There's a big difference. You can have a philosophy that tends to be liberal or conservative but still be open to evidence, experience, and argument. That enables people with honest differences to find practical, principled compromise. On the other hand, fervent insistence on an ideology makes evidence, experience, and arguments irrelevant: If you possess the absolute truth, those who disagree are by definition wrong, and evidence of success or failure is irrelevant. There is nothing to learn from the experience of other countries. Respectful arguments are a waste of time. Compromise is weakness. And if your policies fail, you don't abandon them; instead, you double down, asserting that they would have worked if only they had been carried to their logical extreme.

9. The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.

10. We live in a completely interdependent world, which simply means we can not escape each other. How we respond to AIDS depends, in part, on whether we understand this interdependence. It is not someone else's problem. This is everybody's problem.