Top 133 Hillary Clinton Quotes

My favorite short stories are by Alice Munro, especially her collections ‘Carried Away’ and ‘Runaway.’

The Arctic is going to be an area of intense interest. Russia has the longest coastline in the world with the Arctic.

Look, I’m outspoken.

Oh, I’ve never been asked a silly question in my entire life.

What we have to do… is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

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.

‘Smart power’ is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict – not just send our military in.

Tonight, tonight we’ve reached a milestone in our nation’s march toward a more perfect union: the first time that a major party has nominated a woman for president. Standing here, standing here as my mother’s daughter, and my daughter’s mother, I’m so happy this day has come.

I’ve often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.

Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one’s face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren’t so. I really, really do.

Everybody feels they have been trespassed upon, and nearly everybody has trespassed on somebody else, maybe not intentionally.

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and fears from friends, allies, around the world.

I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.

There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.

You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don’t they?

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

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.

I have to defend my husband.

I won the youth vote in Massachusetts and in California. I did very well with it in Ohio.

I’ve always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there.

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.

When you have armed militants, aided and abetted by a major country like Russia, able to use surface-to-air missiles to bring down a commercial airline, that is a form of terrorism.

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

I helped to restore America’s leadership.

My overall goal is to level the playing field for American businesses.

Whether a woman’s running for office or she’s supporting her husband who’s running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there’s just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.

You don’t make peace with your friends. That’s the bottom line. You end conflicts by trying to find some political resolution.

It became clear to me that simply caring is not enough. To drive real progress, you have to change both hearts and laws. You need both understanding and action.

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.

There is no formula that I’m aware of for being a successful or fulfilled woman today.

I’ve been really at the highest levels of American political life.

I think I’m chronically exhausted.

Most importantly I never sent classified material on my email and I never received any that was marked classified.

If you believe you can make a difference, not just in politics, in public service, in advocacy around all these important issues, then you have to be prepared to accept that you are not going to get 100 percent approval.

We can’t go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, ‘Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,’ unless we can demonstrate that it is in America’s interest. I happen to think it is.

On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.

When does life start? When does it end? Who makes these decisions?… Every day, in hospitals and homes and hospices… people are struggling with those profound issues.

Now, look, I – I like to look at evidence. I plead to that. I think evidence is important when you’re making decisions that affect other people’s lives.

I believe America thrives when the middle class thrives.

You can’t just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

We’ll hold out our hand; they have to unclench their fist.

Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We’re saying that for America to get back on track, we’re probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

I’m somebody who gets up every day and says, ‘What am I going to do today, and how am I going to do it?’ I think it moves me toward some outcome I’m hoping for and also has some, you know, some joy attached to it.

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?’

I believe climate change is real and that we can save our planet while creating millions of good-paying clean energy jobs.

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

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

One of the great things about my mother is she really valued people’s character more than what they did.

I sometimes think that I didn’t leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.

No nation can meet the world’s challenges alone.

I can’t stand whining.

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.

I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, ‘How do we calculate the risk?’ And sometimes we don’t calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it.

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.

One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.

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.

Well, I will be a president for Democrats, Republicans and independents, for the struggling, the striving, the successful, for all those who vote for me and for those who don’t. For all Americans together.

When women participate in peace-making and peace-keeping, we are all safer and more secure.

I’ve never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.

The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don’t want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon.

You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That’s part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days – we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally.

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don’t.

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