Bill Clinton-isms: Bill Clinton Gaffes & Funny Quotes By Notable Quotables [16 more lists]

Ranging from those he said before, during and after his presidency, there have been hundreds of quotes by and about Bill Clinton throughout the years, some funnier than the rest. These Bill Clinton-isms, or selection of quotes from Billy himself, are only a sampling of ways we'll remember the former commander in chief.

As the former President of United States, Bill Clinton's stupid gaffes have succeeded in making people laugh, even at the cost of revealing his own dumbness. At the end of his presidency, he revealed 'I may not have been the greatest president, but I've had the most fun eight years.' Apparently scandals and controversies involving an intern, a blue dress and, gulp, a cigar, qualify as fun.

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Bill Clinton on Life After Presidency

"If President Reagan could be an actor and become president, maybe I could become an actor. I've got a good pension. I can work for cheap.'"
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Bill Clinton on Semantics

"It depends on how you define alone..."
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Bill Clinton on Definitions

"It depends on what the meaning of the words 'is' is."
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Bill Clinton on Politicians

"Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that."
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Bill Clinton on his Administration

"I may not have been the greatest president, but I've had the most fun eight years."
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Bill Clinton on Incan Mummy Juanita

"You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That's a good-looking mummy."
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Bill Clinton on His Nomination Speech for Michael Dukakis

"It wasn't my finest hour. It wasn't even my finest hour and a half."
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Bill Clinton on the White House

"I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system."
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Bill Clinton on Television

"I'm someone who had a deep emotional attachment to 'Starsky and Hutch.'"
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Bill Clinton on Job Creation

"The economy has produced 6.1 million jobs since I became president, and if Michael Jordan comes back to the Bulls, it will be 6,100,001 jobs."
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Bill Clinton on Boxers of Briefs

"Usually briefs."
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Bill Clinton on Being President

"Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening."
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Bill Clinton in His 2000 State of the Union Speech

"Last year, the vice president launched a new effort to help make communities more liberal."

He meant to say "more livable," and then made the same slip-up in a subsequent sentence, drawing uproarious laughter from Republicans
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Bill Clinton on Privacy

"There were a lot of times when we were alone, but I never really thought we were."

Bill Clinton, in his grand jury testimony
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Bill Clinton on Smoking Marijuana

"When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it. I didn't inhale and never tried it again."
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Bill Clinton on an Old Truck

"It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had AstroTurf in the back. You don't want to know why, but I did."
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Bill Clinton at the 150th Anniversary of the Interior Department

"Sometimes I feel like the fire hydrant looking at a pack of dogs. For six years I had declined to tell those kinds of jokes, because I have been told it is not presidential. But I feel kind of outdoorsy today."