Bill Clinton Quotes
I’ll be with you until the last dog dies.
His audience did not quite know exactly what the phrase meant, but it was so clear that he was committed to his audience that it helped him gain the Democratic Presidential Nomination.
William Clinton, 42nd President of the United States (Democrat, AR), Campaign Speech for the Democratic Presidential Nomination, 1991, PBS, The American Experience: Bill Clinton, February 20, 2012
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Hopkins was a social worker with no military of political experience. But the President trusted him implicitly. Most American military officers and Ambassador to England Joseph P. Kennedy, a Nazi sympathizer & father of JFK, believed that England could not stand up to Hitler. Any military aid we gave England would fall into the hands of the Germans. Everyone was shocked when Roosevelt sent Hopkins to England to make a military recommendation. Hopkins, FDR’s closest advisor made this powerful and moving statement to Churchill and other British leaders. The combination of the first Biblical phrase with the second recognition of the possibility of failure, was inspirational for the British—just the effect Roosevelt sought.
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who was the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Clinton was previously Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992, and the Arkansas Attorney General from 1977 to 1979. Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III – he changed to his stepfather's name at age 15.
