Biography
Friends and Family
Roger Clinton
[Step Father]
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Roger Cassidy Clinton, Jr.
[Brother]
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Virginia Blythe Clinton
[Mother]
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William Jefferson Blythe II
[Father]
Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 “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.” “By lifting the weakest, poorest among us, we lift the rest of us as well.”
“I like that about the Republicans; the evidence does not faze them, they are not bothered at all by the facts.”
“Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.”
“Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.”
“Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.”
“The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth”
“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America”
“We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership”
“We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it.”
Trivia
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.
Bill and his family owned a cat named Socks and a dog named Buddy (2001).
Clinton considers his lack of response to the Rwandan genocide of 1994 his major foreign policy failure
Clinton was inducted into the fraternity Alpha Phi Omega.
He was the youngest Arkansas governor to be elected since 1938.
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