No, you can't. Our country is based on government. If it wasn't for American Federalism, we wouldn't be as strong of a country. If you don't like the government, you don't like the country.
-- Jaimie, Indianapolis
You might love your country, but not like what it's people have become-then what do you say? What if the government does something you can't stomach? What if the people in government are hypocrits? It is ironic that the very president that pushed laws through (Sexual Harrassment Laws) then is charged with violating them? Nice try Paula Jones! -- Jim , Salt Lake City
-- Anonymous
Of course you can... -- A.Jurgensen, Stuart, FL
Over half of America currently hates its government precisely because it passionately loves its country. Sorry, President Clinton, you've got this one wrong, real wrong. In fact, I'm shocked this one came from you.
wam -- Anonymous, New York, NY
One may love this country, its people, its diversity, its carrying (Katrina is an excellent example; there was much more church and otherwise private help given than government), its landscape, and the original representative Republic with Constitution for which it stood. To say one loves the current government is to say he loves the murder of innocent people by planes crashing into buildings. The de-facto democratic oligarchy that now inflicts geographic U. S. A. is a blight on the country. -- Mike, Norwalk
Isn't this interesting? The situation during the 60's was exactlly this, and we're repeating it again now. Let's just hope that enuf people hate it that they will change it using the good means that we have, and not have to resort to violence. -- Senor Reek, Heartland, USA
I respect and agree with most of what this man did in his business life (his personal life is clearly a mess, but I can separate my views on these two sides of the man). However, he is 100% wrong on this one. This is best evidenced by the fact the extreme polarization we see in politics today... and our government is all about politics, not just its idealized format, but its everyday working reality. I am puzzled though by the comments above that seem to be 100% against this post and then give it a strong positive rating, seems that the posters here are as confused as the electorate in general... perhaps they are from Florida... -- Anonymous, Reston, VA US
I hate political power (law).....that is what our government has become. -- Kathy, Pennsylvania
I love my country but hate the way so many politicians place the importance of their political power ahead of the success of the citizens they are supposed to serve. Catering to voting blocks by keeping them stirred up, dependent on government, shackled in poverty and focused on their victim status instead of motivating them to succeed is so selfish it is sickening. It is this selfishness that one day could be the downfall of our great democracy. -- Bob Fisher, New Castle, IN
The man does have a way with words, and the words reveal the man. To him, and unfortunately many others, there is no separation between the Federal Govenment and the country. The facts are quite to the contrary--we are the united STATES (see 10th Amendment)--it is the Contstitution that is the source of who and what we are....unfortunately, the idea of Government has been merged with the Constitution and they are not one and the same. The Constitution GOVERNS the Government....and makes us a GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE. -- Michael , Houston, TX
-- Anonymous
I think you can say little else.
Willy never missed a chance to take a swipe at the constitution. -- Bob, Eugene, OR
May God have mercy on our country if Hillary is elected. -- Anonymous
If you love Freedom, and the government uses the collective power you have given it against you and against the very purposes of the agreement, then not only is that a government I hate but a government that must be stopped. The problem today is that the Democrats and Republicans are both Federalist parties, and there is no Democratic-Republican party to balance it. The result is globalism under phony banners. There has not been a president in my life time that has not furthered this new world order agenda, and throughout my life the press, the schools, the nuns, and the cops have been the biggest promoters. Imperialism is alive and well in America -- and because we are ignorant about it, we make the best tools for our feudal lords. I absolutely despise the practice of hypocrisy. The Founders must be rolling in their graves. -- E Archer, NYC
No debate required. The system of government is not the same as THE government. One is imperfect. The other is abominable. -- David L. Rosenthal
Some really fine Quotes.
I really like the new "Joke Quote Section"
This newest Clintoon Quote had me in stiches..
He is one of the best comics out there a real Class Clown.
It rates a 5 Soupy Sales Stars with out a doubt.
-- LT Bill (not related) "Praise be to God", New York
-- Logan, Memphis, TN
-- P.M.
I think that we as a nation should be on our faces before almighty God. Our government has broken God's laws (especially His Ten Commandments) so grievously and so often, not to mention our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Here is a quote from God's Holy Scriptures through the Apostle Paul: "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, and be not entangled with the yoke of bondage."
Galatians 5:1 -- Alan Hagerman (Veteran), Wellsboro, PA
Puppets have to do and say what their puppeteers tell them. He's wrong and so are the puppeteers who are controlling this planet at this time. Times are about to change for the better of mankind. -- N/A, southern rebel
"Bill - the one who said I did not have sex with that woman" - It all depends on how you define "Love" and "Hate". As I understand the words, you can certanily love your country and be very critical of, and maybe "hate" the government made up of self-serving politicians and bureaucrats. They are the same animal with only the one being elected. -- Jim, Burbank
Bill Clinton proves once agian he is an idiot. But then, we knew that already. How anyone can say they repsect what he did in his business life is beyond ridiculuos. A life long communist politican is not something I admire or suggest anyone aspire to be. -- Bill, hoboken
He's a very confused idiot... -- chibiabos, Lampson
You can love your country and the goverment but abhor the leaders.God have mercy on us if Hilary gets elected. -- a christian republican
I am sick and tired of being told that if you do not agree with this administration, that you are not a patriot ack ack ack ack ack ack ack. Wait. Did my husband really say that? -- Hillary, Little Rock, NY
I cannot be the only person who read this quote to realize that others have made the, "If you hate the government, you hate your country" correlation. Most dictators would agree with Clinton's stance on the subject. Mass graves the world over are full of people who were found "guilty" of THAT offense. He clearly learned this from his time as a "scholar" in Eastern Europe. Does this mean that he hated his country back in his youth, when he was constantly protesting national policy? Typical hypocrisy from a closet socialist who was never hosnest enough to admit what he is. -- Mick, Arizona
-- jv
I have different views for this quote. First, I want to state that I strongly disagree with Bill on this one. Basically, I love my country and I do everything in my power to make it a better place. But, at the same time, I do not agree with the way the government tries to handle things, thus I do not like the government at this time. -- Brandy, Flint
Its typical of the Big Brotherism of the Left. -- fm, Corpus Christi, TX
Wm Jefferson Clinton needs to read a little Thomas Jefferson. -- Greg, Minneapolis, MN
This quote is simply false. -- Anonymous
I love the form of government (provided in the constitution) and I love the country .. but I hate what the government has turned into (self serving socialistic) -- patriot, freeport
The American soil is being soiled by the American government and multinational non-human corporations. This is not a partisan stand that I assume, I am a human being assessing the facts as I see them. This is a place where a person without money, when faced with a disease he did not create, in a country that hasn't cured a disease since polio, must die because of the inability to afford simple tests. A citizen without insurance This is a government that hails Christian ideals, then permits usury interests of 1/3 a year. That takes -- Anonymous
what the hell !!? ofcourse you can . Thats absurd. -- Rana
Really? Is that what Washington and Jefferson said? -- Shawn McGraw, Akron, OH
"Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country" is not the same as "Ask not what your government can do for you, but ask what you can do for your government (i.e. Bush, Clinton, Pelosi, Reid, Blago, Edwards, etc.). Country and government are NOT the same thing. -- Bruno, Tampa Bay
yeah, that's a dumb quote, bill. Uh... you can hate it because its a one-party system posing as a two-party system. -- josh, los angeles
... You are wrong Bill.
Get another country and stop ruining ours. -- Anonymous
Clinton never understood his Oxford education would make him a Roads Scholar without Atheletics and thats where he should have stayed, ON THE ROAD! Instead he became a Traitor to the Democratic Party and the United States of America, completing Ronald Reagan's deconstruction of America's economy and position of power.
Mr. Clinton you are at odds with your middle name. "And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." Thomas Jefferson
Got it Gulom! Swine of swine
-- hungrywonmwe, Concord, Mass.
This is bull, I am only fifteen and I realize this. It tells you what a big idiot he is. In fact if you love your country, one could argue that you must constantly correct your government. Hence, you sometimes must hate your government. -- Lulu, loveland
This is so WRONG!
Who is he? The Sun King proclaiming: “I am the state.”
What is he thinking? That people who do not like him or his buddies do not love their country?
-- Jay, Newport
-- Jaimie, Indianapolis
-- Anonymous
