The President's Daughter Quotes

“In the teams you quickly learn that you have to depend on your teammates to get their job done, while you concentrate on your own part of the mission.”
― Bill Clinton, The President's Daughter

“That’s the biggest reason governments keep secrets. Not because they’re sensitive. Because the secrets are embarrassing”
― Bill Clinton, The President's Daughter

“The real people are still there, with their problems and potential, hopes and dreams. It’s just hard for them to make good decisions when their brains are filled, and their spirits broken, with so much”
― Bill Clinton, The President's Daughter

“politics is the art of the compromise,”
― Bill Clinton, The President's Daughter

“Let her work for it.”
― Bill Clinton, The President's Daughter

“Office, and Sam’s is to go back to her first”
― Bill Clinton, The President's Daughter

“sixth president leaves you clueless? I will help you. He was John Quincy Adams, and he once said, ‘Americans should not go abroad to slay dragons they do not understand in the name of spreading democracy.”
― Bill Clinton, The President's Daughter

“At least a five-minute warning. Give them that, Mr.”
― Bill Clinton, The President's Daughter

“The Chinese—in their program called the Belt and Road Initiative—have been pouring in development investments here and in other poor countries around the world. Publicly, the Chinese government says it’s just a way for them, as a growing world power, to share their good fortune and knowledge. Privately, Zeppos and others have received classified briefings depicting the Chinese’s real goal: securing resources, allies, and possible future military bases so China can never again be isolated and humiliated as it so often has been in its long history.”
― Bill Clinton, The President's Daughter

“hovels.”
― Bill Clinton, The President's Daughter

“On the back cover of his checklist binder is an old cracked decal showing a flying Pegasus circled with the acronym NKAWTG, which means Nobody kicks ass without tanker gas!”
― Bill Clinton, The President's Daughter

“teachings from Sage Emperor Guan’s Book of Enlightenment. For one, “It is through filial piety, sibling harmony, dedication, trustworthiness, propriety, sacrifice, honor, and sense of shame that we become fully human.”
― Bill Clinton, The President's Daughter

“Semper Gumby, he thinks. Always flexible.”
― Bill Clinton, The President's Daughter

“Jiang Lijun is not a vice president for the China State Construction Engineering Corporation but a senior officer with the Ministry of State Security. What the hell are the Americans up to?”
― Bill Clinton, The President's Daughter

“the biggest reason governments keep secrets. Not because they’re sensitive. Because the secrets are embarrassing.”
― Bill Clinton, The President's Daughter

“One thing I quickly learned in politics, and it was one hell of a learning curve indeed, is that there are very few people you meet who will become true friends. Most folks you meet in politics, no matter how open the smiles and how deep the compliments, just want you and your office. And when you’re out of office, they fade away.”
― Bill Clinton, The President's Daughter