Bill Clinton Quotes

Commerce is the greatest of all political interests.

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.

It's the economy, stupid!

I really want to focus on economic growth and growing the economy.

Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.

I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans.

After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be chugging along at a pretty good clip. But, it just isn't so, and the light at the end of the tunnel is pretty dim. Just ask a small business owner.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

The Democrats have an answer to the unemployment problem. They're all running for the Presidency.

The surpluses of the [19]90s were the result of a growing economy. They were not the result of government policy.

I have never been governed by polls … people misunderstand economic development.

The corporate welfare state derived from an approach to economic development which worships at the shrine of the gross national product.

The reason I know it [our economy] is strong is that it has survived Congress. If the economy can survive Congress, I am confident that it will thrive eventually.

I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.

I don't think most of Congress understands how economics works.

Government does not create jobs, but it can help set the table for economic growth with the right policies.

I think the economics of this country is intricately linked to the politics of this country and the two cannot be separated.

In terms of the economy, look, I inherited a recession, I am ending on a recession.

The country wants the president and the Congress focused on jobs and the economy. Any regulation that the president promulgates that isn't focused on, I think, is a risk for him, and the same is true for Congress.

The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business.

At the same time, Clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy.

We believe that - the President believes that the economy will continue to grow, that the economy will continue to create jobs, and that we need to do everything we can to enhance that growth and enhance that job creation.

The economy is terrible it's been terrible for years now, and the reason it's bad is not because of a debt-ceiling vote. The reason it's bad is because we have people who believe that by making government bigger by keeping people on unemployment checks and on welfare we're going to dig us out of this mess.