Hillary Clinton Quotes And Sayings

I've Never Understood The Division Between So-called Realists And So-called Idealists.

I Learned Some Valuable Lessons About The Legislative Process, The Importance Of Bipartisan Cooperation And The Wisdom Of Taking Small Steps To Get A Big Job Done.

This Is What We Call Smart Power. Using Every Possible Tool And Partner To Advance Peace And Security. Leaving No One On The Sidelines. Showing Respect Even For One's Enemies. Trying To Understand, In So Far As Psychologically Possible, Empathize With Their Perspective And Point Of View. Helping To Define The Problems, Determine The Solutions.

Don't Let Anybody Tell You It's Corporations And Businesses Create Jobs. You Know That Old Theory, 'Trickle-down Economics.' That Has Been Tried, That Has Failed. It Has Failed Rather Spectacularly.

Great Nations Need Organizing Principles, And 'Don't Do Stupid Stuff' Is Not An Organizing Principle.

Look At Climate Change; Don't Put Your Head In The Sand. Understand That It Is Going To Have Profound Effects On Our Resources And So Much Else.

We're Always Going To Argue About Abortion. It's A Hard Choice And It's Controversial, And That's Why I'm Pro-choice, Because I Want People To Make Their Own Choices.

If You Get So Unequal That People Believe They Don't Have A Chance, That The Field Isn't Level For Them And Their Children, That Puts Democracy At Risk.

Hard Men Present Hard Choices - None More So Than Vladimir Putin, The President Of Russia.

When I Traveled As Secretary Of State, I Was Deluged With Thick Briefing Books Full Of Information About The Politics, Economy, And Culture Of Each Destination, So Those Took Up Most Of My Reading Time.

Everyone Can Change.

When I Chose To Leave A Career As A Young Lawyer In Washington To Move To Arkansas To Marry Bill And Start A Family, My Friends Asked, 'Are You Out Of Your Mind?'

You Don't Make Peace With Your Friends. That's The Bottom Line. You End Conflicts By Trying To Find Some Political Resolution.

I Am Not Going To Comment On What I Did Or Did Not Say Back In The Late '90s.

I Am 100% In The Camp That Says Forgiveness Is Mostly About The Forgiver.

When I Was Younger And Women First Started To Get In Public Positions, In My Case The Law, We Went Through A Period Where We Wore Those Little Ribbon Ties, Little Bows. We Tried To Figure Out What Was Our Appropriate Dress.

The Arctic Is Going To Be An Area Of Intense Interest. Russia Has The Longest Coastline In The World With The Arctic.

There Is Nothing Fast Or Easy About Diplomacy. I Have No Illusions About That.

I'm Undaunted In My Quest To Amuse Myself By Constantly Changing My Hair.

Now, 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.

Struggles Do Not End When Countries Attempt The Transition To Democracy.

We Have To Knock Down The Barriers Erected By Greed, Special Interests, Powerful Forces.

I'm The Only Candidate Which Has A Policy About How To Bring Economic Opportunity - Using Clean, Renewable Energy As The Key - Into Coal Country, Because We're Going To Put A Lot Of Coal Miners And Coal Companies Out Of Business.

One Of The Reasons This Election Is So Important Is Because The Supreme Court Hangs In The Balance. We Need To Overturn That Terrible Supreme Court Decision, Citizens United, And Then Reform Our Whole Campaign Finance System.

I'll Work To Ensure That Every Single Refugee Who Seeks Asylum In The United States Has A Fair Chance To Tell His Or Her Story. This Is The Least We Can Offer People Fleeing Persecution And Devastation.

I Get It That Some People Just Don't Know What To Make Of Me.

The Family I'm From, Well, No One Had Their Name On Big Buildings. My Family Were Builders Of A Different Kind. Builders In The Way Most American Families Are. They Used Whatever Tools They Had - Whatever God Gave Them - And Whatever Life In America Provided - And Built Better Lives And Better Futures For Their Kids.

You Know, Just To Be Grossly Generalistic, You Could Put Half Of Trump's Supporters Into What I Call The Basket Of Deplorables. They're Racist, Sexist, Homophobic, Xenophobic, Islamaphobic - You Name It.

I Think The World Would Be A Lot Better Off If More People Were To Define Themselves In Terms Of Their Own Standards And Values And Not What Other People Said Or Thought About Them.

I Think I Will Serve As Secretary Of State As My Last Public Position.

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.

The First Lesson I've Learned Is That No Matter What You Do In Your Life, You Have To Figure Out Your Own Internal Rhythms - I Mean, What Works For You Doesn't Necessarily Work For Your Friend.

I Don't Think We Should Be About The Business Of Denying Voters In Michigan And Florida The Right To Be Heard.

The Importance Of Building Relationships Among Colleagues, Of Trying To Create Coalitions Behind The Issues That You Are Championing, Was Not Something I Ever Had Much Insight Into Until I Was Elected And Started Serving In The Senate.

I Believe In Delegating Power.

I Always Supported The Women I Worked With Having Time Off To Go To Parent-teacher Conferences And Doctors' Appointments Or Bringing Their Infants Into The Office.

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.

Sometimes, In Public Life, People Ask Inappropriate, Off-the-wall Kinds Of Questions, Don't They?

I Have To Defend My Husband.

I Always Run Inclusive And Successful Organisations.

I Was Not Going To Attack Palin Just For Being A Woman Appealing For Support From Other Women.

I've Spent So Many Years Commuting, I Kind Of Prefer A Home Office.

When You're Down On Yourself, And When You Are Hunkering Down And Pulling Back, You're Not Going To Make Any Better Decisions Than When You Were Aggressively, Belligerently Putting Yourself Forward.

I Can't Drive Anymore.

I Would Be Delighted If The United States Could Have A Positive Relationship With Russia, And I Would Be Thrilled If The Russian People, Who Are So Capable, Had A Normal Country That They Could Chart A Different Future.

The Most Important Questions For Anybody Thinking Of Running For President Are Not 'Will You Run And Can You Win?' There Is, 'What Is Your Vision For America? And Can You Lead Us There?'

American Politics Is Always An Open Competition.

I Want To Work With My Husband And My Daughter On Our Mutual Foundation Interests.

There Are Some People In Politics And In The Press Who Can't Be Confused By The Facts. They Just Will Not Live In An Evidence-based World. And That's Regrettable.

I Believe That Eventually, One Of The Next Big Issues That Will Have To Be Addressed Globally Is The Role Of State-owned Enterprises. Because There Is A Disadvantage That's Built In.