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Clinton Administration Quotes

Looking back at a defining decade.

These quotes offer mixed reflections on the era - one crediting real concern for the middle class and the poor, though with regret that too much care went toward the wealthy as well.

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.

Quotes by Timothy Noah

The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.

Quotes by Sally Quinn

Unlike the Reagan and Bush Administrations, with but one exception, the Clinton administration failed to reach out to Republicans in creating a new team, and eventually paid a political price.

Quotes by Richard V. Allen

For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow.

Quotes by Peter Orszag

Administration Quotes

The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot.

Quotes by Pat Paulsen

Washington should revive international efforts begun during the Clinton administration to pressure countries with dangerously loose banking regulations to adopt and enforce stricter rules.

Quotes by Kit Bond

After college I worked as an appointee in the Clinton administration from 1992 to 1998.

Quotes by Kirsten Powers

I think my whole life had centered on Democratic politics. I was very much in that bubble. I worked in the Clinton administration so I had all these friends from there, and then in Democratic politics in New York, so...

Quotes by Kirsten Powers

I am firmly of the view we should keep the police out of politics in Britain, or we risk going the way of American politics, where the Whitewater investigation lasted virtually the whole of the two terms of the Clinton...

Quotes by Jonathan Powell

After Quotes

I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it.

Quotes by James Bovard

In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to...

Quotes by Fabrizio Moreira

The combat exclusion policy was adopted during the Clinton Administration in 1994 and says women can 'be assigned to all positions for which they are qualified, except that women shall be excluded from assignment to units below the brigade level...

Quotes by Cynthia Dill

The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995, the Clinton Administration failed to take steps immediately to improve security.

Quotes by Charles Bass

Why did the Clinton Administration wait from 1995 to 1998 to tighten security and bolster counterintelligence at U.S. weapons labs?

Quotes by Charles Bass

AIDS Quotes

Why did the Clinton Administration continue to liberalize export controls on sensitive technologies even after it learned that China had stolen designs?

Quotes by Charles Bass

The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn't play, they could strangle us in our crib.

Quotes by Brit Hume

Throughout the early and mid-1990s, the Clinton administration debated the merits of paying for AIDS testing and counseling of vulnerable populations overseas.

Quotes by Barton Gellman

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these Clinton Administration quotes reflect on?
They offer retrospective views on the administration's priorities and mood - its focus on the middle class and poor, and how the atmosphere shifted between its two terms.
Is there a quote about how the administration's focus changed?
Yes - one quote credits real concern for the middle class and the poor, while noting in hindsight that too much concern also went toward the wealthy.
Does this page mention specific controversies?
One quote references how difficult it was to look past the way the administration handled scrutiny around the events at Waco.
Why would someone search for Clinton Administration quotes?
These get used in political history writing and retrospectives that need grounded, era-specific quotes rather than generic political commentary.
What other page pairs with these quotes?
The site's After quotes work well for readers interested in how eras and administrations are remembered afterward.

Others recall the mood shift between terms, from an energetic, sociable start to a harder second term, alongside criticism over how Waco's Avoid-ance of scrutiny was handled. See our After quotes.