A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

— William J. Clinton

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

— William J. Clinton

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

— William J. Clinton

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

— William J. Clinton

I married my best friend. I was still in awe after more than four years of being around her at how smart and strong and loving and caring she was. And I really hoped that her choosing me and rejecting my advice to pursue her own career was a decision she would never regret.

— William J. Clinton

In 1979, just after I became governor, I asked Hillary to chair a rural health committee to help expand health care to isolated farm and mountain areas. They recommended doing that partly by deploying trained nurse practitioners in places with no doctors to provide primary care they were trained to provide.

— William J. Clinton

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

— William J. Clinton

In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.

— William J. Clinton

I still believe in a place called Hope.

— William J. Clinton

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

— William J. Clinton