Bill Clinton Quotes

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

My clothes, my stockings, my wigs were a matter of public discussion …. Columnists asked me about anything and everything—except my job. Women's magazines and women's pages featuring articles about me—sometimes without bothering to interview me. Cartoonist delight in sketching me and my clothes and swelling girth. and always the whispers and speculation about my sex life—how much, and with whom.

Most British statesman have either drunk too much or womanized too much. I never fell into the second category.

I’ve never felt that his private life was the way to judge him. We should judge a president by the way he performs as president.

If science doesn't convince you, just Google 'cheating politicians' for the long and sordid list of men - like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mark Sanford, and John Edwards - whose hormones got the best of them.

It's amazing to me that people have any interest in such a low-level sex scandal. If I were sleeping with a congressman, maybe, but I'm a nobody and the people I'm writing about are nobodies.

I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with.

I don't care about Clinton's haircuts or his affairs or any of that stuff.

I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere.

But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.

Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex - not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.

When Gingrich attacked CNN's John King for bringing up his alleged proposal of an open marriage to his second wife, Gingrich accused him of lowering the level of discourse in a presidential debate, suggesting that such a discussion is unworthy of consideration by voters.

Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November.

I do not believe the president’s sex life is any of our business. After 30 years of political reporting I have been unable to establish a link between marital fidelity and high performance in public office. It really doesn’t matter who they screw in private as long as they don’t screw the public.

I think President Clinton has been a great leader, but I don’t want my daughter near him.

Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.

I was entangled by weakness, by passion, by sin, in coils which it was almost impossible to break.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

A great party is not to be brought down because of a scandal by a woman of easy virtue ...

A Fellow who has deserved to be hang'd by all Laws human and divine, for his Conduct in private Life, will spring up into an important Champion at the Head of a Party.

These are not grounds for impeachment. These are grounds for divorce.

I think it would be much better for the country and for Clinton personally to resign. I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he'd be gone.

As the record of great figures in history shows, the correlation between a politician's sexual fidelity and his or her contribution to mankind is zero.