Hillary Clinton famous quotes

I really do hope that we have a woman president in my lifetime.
-- Hillary Clinton

#President #Lifetime

Let's learn from the wisdom of every mother and father who teaches their daughters there is no limit on how big she can dream and how much she can achieve.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Daughter #Mother #Dream

Don't let anybody tell you that it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Jobs #Corporations #Obnoxious

I look for people who have raw intelligence and a great work ethic and loyalty, and I can quickly identify people who have the right ingredients. But sometimes it is more difficult to get them to accept the fact that they can take on increasing responsibility. Oftentimes individuals will decide how far [they] go by how much work they're willing to put in and how quick they are to ask for help. Too many people have this deep-seated fear that if they ask for help, they will be thought less of.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Loyalty #Responsibility #People

Americans need a champion and I want to be that champion.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Champion #Needs #Want

Keeping your head down and doing the best job you can in the beginning gives you the opportunity to be evaluated on the basis of the contributions you are making. [Then], when you feel strongly about your work or about a position, you'll be given more attention [than] if you hadn't done that constantly.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Jobs #Opportunity #Giving

There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Responsibility #Opportunity #Voice

People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Eye #People #Burden

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Cynical #Democracy #Life Is

There are many ways to be influential. You can work for politicians or in government and make a difference. And for young women who are interested in running for office, you just have to decide you're going to follow Eleanor Roosevelt's maxim about growing skin as thick as the hide of a rhinoceros, and you have to be incredibly well-prepared - better prepared [than a man], actually - and you have to figure out how you're going to present yourself, and you have to have a support group around you, because it can be really a brutal experience.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Running #Men #Differences

Motown, Motown, that's my era. Those are my people.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Hilarious #People #Eras

Relationships are at the core of any political system and economic system - any family - and I think we drifted away from understanding that in our country. The people-to-people level is critical. It is ironic, though - we can text with anybody in the world, we can have a videoconference with anybody in the world, but [there should be] an even higher premium on showing up and getting to know someone.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Country #Thinking #People

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Safety #Abortion #Planning

The United States remains the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all of our people. And yet we are spending almost twice as much per capita. We have a massively dysfunctional health care system. And I do believe in a Medicare for all single-payer system, whether a small state like Vermont can lead the nation, which I certainly hope we will, or whether it's California or some other state.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Country #Believe #California

I am all about new beginnings. A new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new email account. Why not a new relationship with the press?
-- Hillary Clinton

#New Relationship #New Beginnings #Grandchildren

Over the years, we have lost millions of decent paying jobs. These trade agreements have forced wages down in America so the average worker in America today is working longer hours for lower wages.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Jobs #Agreement #Average

There are resources to help and simple steps that parents, preschools, businesses, and communities can take to help our kids succeed, because we're all in this together, and that's what the Too Small to Fail Initiative is all about.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Kids #Simple #Community

If we're going to be successful in taking on the billionaire class, we need a strong national grassroots movement.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Strong #Successful #Class

I don't ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Trouble #Living My Life #Enough

I`m running for president because everyday Americans and their families need a champion, and I want to be that champion. I want to make the words middle class mean something again.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Running #Mean #Class

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions
-- Hillary Clinton

#Jail #Prison #Mental Health

I want a strong military. But I do not believe, among other things, that without an audit, we should be throwing tens of billions of dollars more into the Department of Defense.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Strong #Military #Believe

It's so much more fun to watch FOX when it's someone else being blitzed & sacked!
-- Hillary Clinton

#Fun #Watches #Politics

We believe strongly that the road to peace and two states living side by side does not go through New York, it goes through Jerusalem and Ramallah.
-- Hillary Clinton

#New York #Believe #Two

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Home #Tea #Cookies

You may not agree with a woman, but to criticize her appearance — as opposed to her ideas or actions — isn't doing anyone any favors, least of all you. Insulting a woman's looks when they have nothing to do with the issue at hand implies a lack of comprehension on your part, an inability to engage in high-level thinking. You may think she's ugly, but everyone else thinks you're an idiot.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Thinking #Hands #Ideas

I have many, many old friends, and I always think that it`s important, when you get into politics, to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what`s on their minds.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Thinking #Old Friends #Mind

Don't confuse having a career with having a life.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Careers #Balance #Politics

The deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top. And there's something wrong with that. There's something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the typical worker.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Typical #Favors #Ceo

Life is not easy for anyone. Sometimes you don't see the challenges on the outside, but every single one of us has both those and everything that goes on inside as well. Give it your all. Dare to be all you can be.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Graduation #Giving #Challenges

I think from a moral issue, CEOs should not be making - whether it's 270 or 300 times more than their workers are making.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Thinking #Issues #Moral

I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Want #Speak #Teach

I think we do not need to send more jobs to low wage countries. I think corporate America has to start investing in this country and create decent paying jobs here.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Country #Jobs #Thinking

My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.
-- Hillary Clinton

#People #Leader #Feelings

Of course, ISIS is a terrible organization that has to be defeated. And, of course, we need a strong military. But just as with every other agency of government, you know what, the military also has got to get rid of waste and fraud and cost overruns.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Strong #Military #Agency

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Girl #Empowerment #Politics

I'm not running my campaign for the press. I'm running it for voters. I totally respect the press and what the press has to do.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Running #Campaigns #Voters

There is no doubt that the increasing numbers of women in the economy has helped fuel significant growth everywhere. And economies that are making the shift more effectively and rapidly are dramatically outperforming those that have not.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Numbers #Doubt #Growth

I don't want [to work] people who agree with me. I want honest, spirited, hard-working, patriotic people who want to be part of a team, the American team.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Team #Hard Work #Patriotic

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Country #Rights #Wealth

We must urgently begin to rebuild the bonds of trust and respect among Americans. Restoring trust in our politics, our press, our markets.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Trust And Respect

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Children #Giving #Our Children

Hillary Clinton at the end of the day will be a friend of Wall Street.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Wall #The End Of The Day #Clinton

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Government #People #Helping

I know that so many of us hoped that, by electing our first black president, we had turned the page on this chapter in our history. But, despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Struggle #Race #America

Like being a woman, like being a racial religious tribal or ethnic minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Religious #Gay #Rights

Every day Americans and their families need a champion, a champion who will fight for them every single day. And I want to be that champion. I want to get up every single day going to work for you, standing up for you.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Fighting #Champion #Needs

LGBT Americans are our colleagues, our teachers, our soldiers, our friends, our loved ones, and they are full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship. That includes marriage. I support it personally, and as a matter of policy and law.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Teacher #Gay #Law

We can't wait any longer for a path to full and equal citizenship. Now, this is where I differ with everybody on the Republican side. Make no mistake, today, not a single Republican candidate, announced or potential, is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship. Not one. When they talk about legal status that is code for second-class status.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Mistake #Class #Waiting

Parenthood has the power to redefine every aspect of life - marriage, work, relationships with family and friends. Those helpless bundles of power and promise that come into our world show us our true selves- who we are, who we are not, who we wish we could be.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Our World #Self #Promise

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Husband #Father #War

America can't succeed unless you succeed. That is why I am running for president of the United States.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Running #America #President

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Inspirational #Perseverance #Encouragement

Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Democracy #Corporations #Billionaire

I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Opportunity #Parent #Lucky

I'm not running for some Americans but for all Americans.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Running

I also believe that we have an extraordinary opportunity for the United States and European Union to lead the world in developing and implementing new and more efficient technologies - smart electrical grids and electrical vehicles.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Smart #Believe #Technology

I think you know by now that I've been called many things by many people. Quitter is not one of them.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Thinking #People #Quitter

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Reality #Ideas #Democracy

While I may not be the youngest candidate in this race, but I will be the youngest woman president in the history of the United States.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Race #President #United States

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Inspirational #Art #Optimistic

As a Christian, part of my obligation is to alleviate suffering. Explicit recognition of that in the Methodist tradition is one reason I'm comfortable in this church.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Christian #Suffering #Church

There's a certain consistency to who I am and what I do, and I think people have finally said, 'Well, you know, I kinda get her now.' I've actually had people say that to me.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Thinking #Who I Am #People

Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Democracy #Corporations #Prosperity

I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Amazing Life #Most Amazing #Public Service

What's great about America is anybody can run for president. That is literally true.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Running #America #President

Every child needs a champion.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Children #Champion #Vision

I have no plans to say or do anything about The Clinton Foundation other than to say how proud I am of it and that I think for the good of the world, its work should continue.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Thinking #Foundation #World

Every moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Moving #Looking For Love #Moments

People should and do trust me.
-- Hillary Clinton

#People #Trust Me #Should

when you stumble, keep faith. And when you're knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Motivational #Badass #Women

Presidents should be very careful at all times in discussing the use or non-use of nuclear weapons. Presidents since the cold war have used nuclear deterrence to keep the peace, and I don't believe that any president should make any blanket statements with respect to the use or non-use of nuclear weapons.
-- Hillary Clinton

#War #Believe #President

India has reduced its dependence on Iranian oil. I know their refineries have stopped asking for orders to purchase Iranian oil.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Order #Oil #India

When you are engaged in both trying to kill and capture the enemy and get support from the local population, you have to be always asking yourself, "Is what I'm doing keeping that balance?"
-- Hillary Clinton

#Support #Enemy #Balance

I'm sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we're Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Encouragement #Patriotic #Tired

In this world and the world of tomorrow, we must go forward together or not at all.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Together #World #Tomorrow

We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Inspirational #Kindness #Successful

We need to understand that there is no formula for how women should lead their lives. that is why we must respect the choices that each woman makes for herself and her family. Every woman deserves the chance to realize her God-given potential.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Choices #Politics #Needs

I have always believed that women are not victims, we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace -- all we need is a fighting chance.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Fighting #Progress #Agents

I wish I were taller and thinner but the hair you can do something about.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Hair #Wish

I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Thinking #Lasts #States

I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, as well as a child.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Children #Thinking #Giving

Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Integrity #Voting #House

I am delighted to be here in these new [Council on Foreign Relations] headquarters. I have been often to, I guess, the mother ship in New York City, but it's good to have an outpost of the Council right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of advice from the Council, so this will mean I won't have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Mother #New York #Mean

It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity.
-- Hillary Clinton

#New Beginnings #Responsibility #Government

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Funny #Change #Beauty

You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Friends #Fighting #People

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Motivational #Girl #Badass

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Motivational #Night #Despair

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Children #Women #Fate

I have to confess that it's crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Christian #Mind #Republican

Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Stupid #Principles #Needs

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Women

Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Thinking #Quality #Passionate

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Liars #Lying #Tired

I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Funny #Laughter #Hair

In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Forgiveness #Jesus #Political

Gay people are born into, and belong to, every society in the world. They are all ages, all races, all faiths. They are doctors and teachers, farmers and bankers, soldiers and athletes. And whether we know it or whether we acknowledge it, they are our family, our friends, and our neighbors. Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Teacher #Athlete #Gay

I've often thought that when something is hard for you, whether it's going to law school or anything else that challenges you, that's probably what you should do.
-- Hillary Clinton

#School #Law #Challenges

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Anger #Thinking #Society