Bill Clinton

Look, I want to go on nuclear power. I want to go forward with that. I want to go forward with offshore drilling.

Stabilization and reconstruction operations take time.

First, security is an essential prerequisite for reform, as it is for private investment.

2 years was too short a time to fix a society as troubled as Haiti's.

The good news is that Haiti is not a particularly difficult society to secure.

no other people in the world would be so patient and calm in the face of so much suffering.

I do think that the United States should consider increasing the assignment of American police officers to the U.N. police contingent there.

I think the aid is coming in as fast as we can get it in by air and a little bit bussing it in. The real -- as you know, the real bottlenecks are the distribution system here.

Well, the greatest needs from the point of view of government support are for more search and rescue teams and more medical teams.

There's a need for food. There's a need for water. We have to start thinking short-term and long-term.

We've got to go through, and we need more helicopters because some of the roads are closed.

Oh, sure they can, but right now, they're really hurting.

one of the greatest needs is for search-and-rescue teams right now, because, as you saw in that piece, there are still people out there who are alive.

What we have to do is to help them survive by saving as many lives as possible, trying to preserve with some dignity those who have died so they can be identified by their loved ones and properly buried, and then trying to help those who…

A few years ago this guy would have been serving us coffee.

The only reason you're endorsing Barack Obama is because he's black.

I just told them that I thought, economically, America had to pass health care reform, because we were spending $900 billion a year more than we would be spending on any other system, and we were getting less for it.

I just told them that I thought economically America had to pass health care reform because we were spending $900 billion a year more than we would be spending on any other system and we were getting less for it.

You know, I think he's happy about it. You know, I think he knows he's young, hip and cool.

The Congressional Republicans need to know that just saying no on everything and praying for the president to fail is not a good strategy.

I do. I think that well, let me get back to the last one. You're last word -- I believe historically for 200 and something years, marriage has been a question left to the state and the religious institutions. I still think that's where it…

But he hated communism, he believed in freedom. He was the best leader Russia could have had at the time. I adored him.

Well, that's a decision he's going to have to make. But I think that he and Prime Minister Brown and President Sarkozy did exactly the right thing to bring it out in the daylight.

I have all these gay friends and I have all these gay couple friends. And I was hung up about it. And I decided I was wrong.

Well, that depends on what the terms of the negotiations are. I think what they may want to do is talk to them one time anyway just to see now that they know what we know, it's just like Saddam Hussein when he was there. That you can…