HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON QUOTES
American politician & civil servant (1947- )
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I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, response to reporter's question, Mar. 16, 1992 (reported on Nightline, Mar. 26, 1992)
- Too many women
- in too many countries
- speak the same language,
- of silence.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, Living History
When women participate in politics, it ripples out to the entire society ... Women are the world’s most underused resource.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, interview, New York Magazine, Sep. 22, 2013
Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. When you stumble, keep faith. 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 RODHAM CLINTON, speech in Washington, D.C., Jun. 7, 2008
My mother and grandmothers could never have lived my life; my father and my grandfathers could never have imagined it. But they bestowed on me the promise of America, which made my life and my choices possible.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, Living History
We used to say in the White House that if a place is too dangerous, too small or too poor, send the First Lady.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, Iowa stump speech, 2008
Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, speech in Washington, D.C., Jun. 7, 2008
A political life, I've often said, is a continuing education in human nature, including one's own. My involvement on the ground floor of two presidential campaigns and my duties as First Lady took me to every state in our union and to seventy-eight nations. In each place, I met someone or saw something that caused me to open my mind and my heart and deepen my understanding of the universal concerns that most of humanity shares.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, Living History
Clearly, we need more incentives to quickly increase the use of wind and solar power; they will cut costs, increase our energy independence and our national security and reduce the consequences of global warming.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, speech at Cleantech Venture Forum VIII, Oct. 25, 2005
I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is not being pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family, and not entrusting that decision to anyone wearing the authority of government in any regard.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, remarks at NARAL Anniversary Luncheon, Washington, D.C., Jan. 22, 1999
Simply put, we have to be smart about how we use our power. Not because we have less of it – indeed, the might of our military, the size of our economy, the influence of our diplomacy, and the creative energy of our people remain unrivaled. No, it’s because as the world has changed, so too have the levers of power that can most effectively shape international affairs.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, Feb. 1, 2013
Home is a child's first and most important classroom.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, It Takes a Village
Despite our founding principles and the many ways our constitution has protected individual liberties, we do, let's admit it, have a long history of shutting people out--african americans, women, gays and lesbians, people with disabilities--and throughout our history, we have found too many ways to divide and exclude people from their ownership of the law and protection under the law.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, speech to American Bar Association, Aug. 12, 2013
People are stereotypes, they are caricaturized. It comes from both sides of the political aisle, it comes from the press. It’s all about conflict, it’s all about personality, and there are huge stakes in the policies that are being debated, and I think there’s a hunger amongst a very significant, maybe even a critical mass of Americans, clustered on the left, right, and center, to have an adult conversation about how we’re going to solve these problems ... but it’s not for the fainthearted.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, interview, New York Magazine, Sep. 22, 2013
It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, Time Magazine, Feb. 20, 2008
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 RODHAM CLINTON, It Takes a Village
Fighting to give women and girls a fighting chance isn’t a nice thing to-do. It isn’t some luxury that we get to when we have time on our hands to spend. This is a core imperative for every human being in every society. If we do not continue the campaign for women’s rights and opportunities, the world we want to live, the country we all love and cherish, will not be what it should be.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, remarks at the fourth annual Women in the World Summit, Apr. 5, 2013
We are here to advance the cause of women and to advance the cause of democracy and to make it absolutely clear that the two are inseparable. 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 RODHAM CLINTON, Keynote Address at the Vital Voices Conference in Vienna, Austria, Jul. 11, 1997
American values are not just about America, but they speak to the human dignity, the God-given spark that resides in each and every person across the world.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, remarks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Kansas City, Missouri, Aug. 20, 2007
Listening to what people in other countries are saying and trying to understand how they perceive their place in the world is essential to a future of peace and security at home and abroad.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, Living History
If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, Hanukkah dinner speech at Yeshiva University, Dec. 2005
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 RODHAM CLINTON, It Takes a Village
I made a mistake. That happens. It proves I'm human, which you know, for some people, is a revelation.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, regarding previous remarks about a trip to Bosnia, Mar. 25, 2008
One thing we know for sure is that change is certain. Progress is not. Progress depends on the choices we make today for tomorrow and on whether we meet our challenges and protect our values.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, Living History
Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, Living History
Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, speech in Washington D.C., Jun. 7, 2008
I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, "We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!"
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, remarks at annual Democratic Party Jefferson-Jackson-Bailey Day fund raising dinner in Connecticut, Apr. 28, 2003
Nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom. We want to put these tools in the hands of people who will use them to advance democracy and human rights.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, remarks on internet freedom at the Newseum, Washington, DC, Jan. 21, 2010
Laws and traditions that hold back women, hold back entire societies.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, remarks at the fourth annual Women in the World Summit, Apr. 5, 2013
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