Hillary Clinton Quotes (312 quotes, page 4)

“I believe every American willing to work hard should be able to find a job that provides dignity, pride and decent pay that can support a family.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Speech in Warren, Michigan (August 11, 2016)

Family , Support

“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.”

Hillary Clinton

People interview (December 28, 1992) http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20109507,00.html
White House years (1993–2000)

Life , Parting , Personality

“You know, I have written about this and described it in many different settings, and I did misspeak the other day. This has been a very long campaign.”

Hillary Clinton

March 24 & 25, 2008, retracting her remarks regarding Bosnia in private interviews. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/25/politics/main3967223.shtml?source=mostpop_story
Presidential campaign (January 20, 2007 – 2008)

“Mexico is such an important problem. The Mexican government's policies are pushing migration north… There isn't any sensible approach except to do what we need to do simultaneously. Secure our border — with technology, personnel, physical barriers if necessary in some places. We need to have tough employer sanctions, incentivize Mexico to do more.”

Hillary Clinton

Council on Foreign Relations speech in 2006 ( video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uXJ1mgkyF0), quoted in "Hillary Clinton In 2006: ‘Secure Our Border With… Physical Barriers’" http://www.westernjournalism.com/hillary-clinton-in-2006-secure-our-border-with-physical-barriers/ by Gerry Urbanek, Western Journalism (10 June 2016).
Senate years (2001 – January 19, 2007)

Problem

“My priorities are to deport violent criminals, terrorists, and anyone who threatens our safety. So I do not have the same policy as the current administration does. I think it’s important that we move to our comprehensive immigration reform, but at the same time, stop the raids, stop the round-ups, stop the deporting of people who are living here doing their lives, doing their jobs, and that’s my priority.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Democratic Presidential Debate in Miami (March 9, 2016)

People , Thinking , Time

“I did not send classified material, and I did not receive any material that was marked or designated classified.”

Hillary Clinton

Press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4UPOGdnM9k, Las Vegas, Nevada (18 August 2015)
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016)

“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

Speech at the National Prayer Luncheon, reported in The New Yorker (30 May 1994) https://archive.is/20130630002949/www.newyorker.com/archive/content/articles/070205fr_archive01?page=1
White House years (1993–2000)

Forgiveness , Time

“We've got to defeat ISIS, and we've got to do everything we can to disrupt their propaganda efforts online.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)

Effort

“Let’s remember where Trump makes many of his own products. Because it sure is not America. … One positive thing Trump could do to make America great again is actually make great things in America again.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Speech in Warren, Michigan (August 11, 2016)

“I think that the Saudis have a multiple level of responsibilities, first and foremost, stopping their own citizens from continuing the financing for extremists. And, you know, Saudi financing is still a major source of revenue for terrorist groups inside Syria, inside Iraq elsewhere.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Speech on fighting ISIS (November 20, 2015)

Thinking

“Some people will say that his bluster and bigotry is just over-heated campaign rhetoric – an outrageous person saying outrageous things for attention. But look at the policies Trump has proposed. They would put prejudice into practice. And don’t be distracted by his latest attempts to muddy the waters. He may have some new people putting new words in his mouth… but we know where he stands. He would form a deportation force to round up millions of immigrants and kick them out of the country.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Speech in (August 25, 2016)

People , Water , Personality , Country

“We can have enough clean energy to power every home.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)

Home

“I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.”

Hillary Clinton

Economic policy speech, May 29, 2007. http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/speech/view/?id=1839
Presidential campaign (January 20, 2007 – 2008)

Family

“Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.”

Hillary Clinton

Charging Barack Obama with plagiarism at Texas presidential debate, February 21, 2008 http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,1715473,00.html; see relevant quote above, two days earlier
Presidential campaign (January 20, 2007 – 2008)

Change

“I was one who supported giving President Bush the authority, if necessary, to use force against Saddam Hussein. I believe that that was the right vote. I have had many disputes and disagreements with the administration over how that authority has been used, but I stand by the vote to provide the authority because I think it was a necessary step in order to maximize the outcome that did occur in the Security Council with the unanimous vote to send in inspectors.”

Hillary Clinton

Council on Foreign Relations (15 December 2003) http://www.cfr.org/publication.html?id=6600 ( video http://www.ablogistan.com/archives/2008/01/people_died_cli.html)
Senate years (2001 – January 19, 2007)

Support , Thinking

“It is time to bring families together.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Democratic Presidential Debate in Miami (March 9, 2016)

Family , Time

“I want to defend fracking under the right circumstances… I want to defend this stuff. And you know, I'm already at odds with the most organized and wildest [of the environmental movement]. They come to my rallies and they yell at me and, you know, all the rest of it. They say, 'Will you promise never to take any fossil fuels out of the earth ever again?”

Hillary Clinton

No. I won't promise that. Get a life, you know.
Private meeting with the Building Trades Union (9 September 2015), WikiLeaks. Quoted in "Clinton to environmentalists: 'Get a life'" http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/clinton-to-environmentalists-get-a-life/article/2604626 by John Siciliano, Washington Examiner (15 October 2016).
Attributed

Life

“I don't think President Obama and Vice President Biden get the credit they deserve for saving us from the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), (July 28, 2016)

Thinking

“You know, I'm not sitting here like some little woman standing by my man, like Tammy Wynette. I'm sitting here because I love him, and I respect him, and I honor what he's been through and what we've been through together. And you know, if that's not enough for people, then heck, don't vote for him.”

Hillary Clinton

60 minutes interview. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/03/12/MN37VI8QI.DTL&type=printable
Husband's Presidential campaign (1992 – January 19, 1993)

Love , People

“The de facto merger between Breitbart and the Trump Campaign represents a landmark achievement for the "Alt-Right." A fringe element has effectively taken over the Republican Party.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Speech in (August 25, 2016)

“I do have the toughest, most comprehensive plan to go after Wall Street. And not just the big banks, all the other financial interests that pose a threat to our economy. And I have said no bank is too big to fail and no executive is too powerful to jail, and I will use the powers that have now been passed by the Congress, by President Obama, who, incidentally, took a lot of money from Wall Street, which didn’t stop him from signing into law the toughest regulations on the financial industry since the Great Depression. There are a lot of different powerful interests in Washington. I’ve taken them on. I took on the drug companies. I took on the insurance companies. Before there was something called Obamacare, there was something called Hillarycare, and I worked really hard to get comprehensive health care reform.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Democratic Presidential Debate in Miami (March 9, 2016)

Money , Law

“I believe strongly that commonsense gun safety measures would assist us. Right now -- and this is something Donald has supported, along with the gun lobby -- right now, we've got too many military- style weapons on the streets. In a lot of places, our police are outgunned. We need comprehensive background checks, and we need to keep guns out of the hands of those who will do harm.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)

Support

“Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported.”

Hillary Clinton

Tweet (22 November 2015) https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/668597149291184128
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016)

Support

“Someone detached from reality should never be in charge of making decisions that are as real as they come.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Speech in (August 25, 2016)

Reality , Decision

“Every kid with a disability has the right to go to school.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), (July 28, 2016)

School

“There are common-sense things that your government could do that would give Americans more opportunities to succeed. Why don’t we do it? Because powerful special interests and the tendency to put ideology ahead of political progress have led to gridlock in Congress.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Speech in Warren, Michigan (August 11, 2016)

Sense

“Progress is possible. I know because I've seen it in the lives of people across America who get knocked down and get right back up. And I know it from my own life.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), (July 28, 2016)

Life , People

“Trump’s lack of knowledge or experience or solutions would be bad enough. But what he’s doing here is more sinister. Trump is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his most hateful supporters. It’s a disturbing preview of what kind of President he’d be.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Speech in (August 25, 2016)

Hate , Dogs , Support , Knowledge

“Let's not assume that trade is the only challenge we have in the economy. I think it is a part of it, and I've said what I'm going to do. I'm going to have a special prosecutor. We're going to enforce the trade deals we have, and we're going to hold people accountable.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)

People , Thinking , Parting

“So nice to be a fashion icon in my day.”

Hillary Clinton

On a Saturday Night Live skit featuring her in a pantsuit. Rhode Island, February 2008.
Presidential campaign (January 20, 2007 – 2008)

Fashion

“None of us can raise a family, build a business, heal a community or lift a country totally alone. America needs every one of us to lend our energy, our talents, our ambition to making our nation better and stronger. I believe that with all my heart. That's why “Stronger Together” is not just a lesson from our history. It's not just a slogan for our campaign. It's a guiding principle for the country we've always been and the future we're going to build. A country where the economy works for everyone, not just those at the top. Where you can get a good job and send your kids to a good school, no matter what zip code you live in. A country where all our children can dream, and those dreams are within reach. Where families are strong… communities are safe… And yes, love trumps hate. That's the country we're fighting for. That's the future we're working toward.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), 2016 Democratic National Convention (July 28, 2016)

Love , Hate , Children , School

“Gay rights are human rights.”

Hillary Clinton

Quoted in The Week, 10 December 2011, p. 10
Secretary of State (2009–2013)

“You have to stand up to bullies. You have to keep working to make things better, even when the odds are long and the opposition is fierce.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), (July 28, 2016)

“I would not deport children. I do not want to deport family members either.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Democratic Presidential Debate in Miami (March 9, 2016)

Children , Family

“Our economy has been at risk by investment schemes aimed at making not just a few, but many extra dollars, and we need to start insisting on the right rules and transparency so this doesn't happen again.”

Hillary Clinton

December 5, 2007
Presidential campaign (January 20, 2007 – 2008)

“Public discourse is sometimes hotter and more negative than it should be, which can, in my opinion, trigger someone who is less than stable.”

Hillary Clinton

Interview with Jon Ralston, Ralston Live (18 June 2015) http://watch.knpb.org/video/2365512486/
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016)

“On a couple of occasions in the last weeks, I just said some things that weren‘t in keeping with what I knew to be the case and what I had written about in my book. And you know, I‘m embarrassed by it. I‘m very sorry I said it. I have said that, you know, it just didn‘t jive with what I had written about and knew to be the truth.”

Hillary Clinton

citation needed
Presidential campaign (January 20, 2007 – 2008)

Truth , Books

“I'm not going to put my lot in with economists.”

Hillary Clinton

on her dismissal of economists' universal opposition to her gas tax holiday proposal http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/05/im-not-going-to.html
Presidential campaign (January 20, 2007 – 2008)

“I voted numerous times when I was a Senator to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in.”

Hillary Clinton

Town hall event at a high school in Windham; transcript: "Clinton: ‘You Have to Control Your Borders’" http://latinousa.org/2015/11/09/clinton-you-have-to-control-your-borders-video/ by Julio Ricardo Varela, Latino USA (9 November 2015)
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016)

Money , Time

“When I became secretary of state, Iran was weeks away from having enough nuclear material to form a bomb. They had mastered the nuclear fuel cycle under the Bush administration. They had built covert facilities. They had stocked them with centrifuges that were whirling away. And we had sanctioned them. I voted for every sanction against Iran when I was in the Senate, but it wasn't enough. So I spent a year-and-a-half putting together a coalition that included Russia and China to impose the toughest sanctions on Iran.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)

“I do take responsibility. When you’re in public life, even if you believe that it’s not an opinion that you think is fair or founded, you do have to take responsibility. And I do. And I also have, you know, very much committed to the best of my ability my energies and efforts to helping people. That’s something that I care deeply about. And I will continue to do that, to demonstrate by my past actions and my present levels of commitment and plans that people can count on me.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Democratic Presidential Debate in Miami (March 9, 2016)

Life , People , Thinking , Effort

“He says it's a secret plan, but the only secret is that he has no plan.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)

Secret

“Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia. He’s taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over one of America’s two major political parties. His disregard for the values that make our country great is profoundly dangerous. In just the past week, under the guise of "outreach" to African Americans, Trump has stood up in front of largely white audiences and described black communities in insulting and ignorant terms.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Speech in (August 25, 2016)

Hate , Communication , Past , Help

“I was the boss of ambassadors in 270 countries.”

Hillary Clinton

"Benghazi chair struggles to explain gains from marathon session" http://www.cbsnews.com/news/benghazi-hearing-hillary-clinton-chairman-struggles-to-explain-gains-from-session/, CBS News (23 October 2015)
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016)

Country

“Donald Trump says he wants to make America great again – well, he could start by actually making things in America again.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), (July 28, 2016)

“It is long past time for the Saudis, the Qataris and the Kuwaitis and others to stop their citizens from funding extremist organizations. And they should stop supporting radical schools and mosques around the world that have set too many young people on a path towards extremism.”

Hillary Clinton

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Speech about the Orlando Shooting (June 13, 2016)

People , World , School , Support

“On their own, new technologies do not take sides in the struggle for freedom and progress, but the United States does. We stand for a single internet where all of humanity has equal access to knowledge and ideas. […] The internet can help bridge divides between people of different faiths. As the President said in Cairo, freedom of religion is central to the ability of people to live together. And as we look for ways to expand dialogue, the internet holds out such tremendous promise. […] We are also supporting the development of new tools that enable citizens to exercise their rights of free expression by circumventing politically motivated censorship. We are providing funds to groups around the world to make sure that those tools get to the people who need them in local languages, and with the training they need to access the internet safely. The United States has been assisting in these efforts for some time, with a focus on implementing these programs as efficiently and effectively as possible. Both the American people and 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, to fight climate change and epidemics, to build global support for President Obama's goal of a world without nuclear weapons, to encourage sustainable economic development that lifts the people at the bottom up.”

Hillary Clinton

"Remarks on Internet Freedom", The Newseum, Washington, DC, January 21, 2010 http://web.archive.org/web/20100123145341/http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/01/135519.htm
Secretary of State (2009–2013)

People , World , Faith , Religion

“I'm so grateful this day has ended well.”

Hillary Clinton

In response to the closure of the Campaign office hostage crisis. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/01/whostage101.xml
Presidential campaign (January 20, 2007 – 2008)