"Fifty years ago, when I was born in a summer storm to a widowed
mother in a little town in Arkansas, it was unthinkable that I
might ever become President."
"Like other people, I have had crises in my life, personal
crises, personal failures, the sense that I had let myself and
others down, the sense that maybe I'd never be the person God
wanted me to be."
He was the first president to represent the baby-boom generation
and the last president of the twentieth century. An activist chief
executive whose ambition was to "build a bridge" to a rapidly
changing American future, he was the product of a small Arkansas
upbringing steeped in tradition. Now, here is a portrait of William
Jefferson Clinton, a brilliant and complex man and leader, in the
words of the one person who knows him best: himself. Here are the
most fascinating and revealing glimpses into one of the most
quotable presidents of our time.
"We must never let a blizzard of statistics blind us to the real
people and the real lives behind them."
"There's a poll saying that forty percent of the American people
think Hillary's smarter than I am. What I don't understand is how
the other sixty percent missed it."