Hillary Clinton Quotes
October 26, 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 Clinton— Response to reporter's questions (16 March 1992), reported on "Making Hillary an Issue" Nightline (26 March 1992). Quoted in Boston Globe.
I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.
Hillary Clinton— Quoted in Blood Sport: The President and His Adversaries (p. 368), James B. Stewart, December 1993
It saddens me that a historic event like this is being misconstrued by a small but vocal group of critics trying to spread the notion that the UN gathering is really the work of radicals and atheists bent on destroying our families.
Hillary Clinton— "China, UN Seek to Put Conference Back on Track" (Reuters: September 4, 1995)
Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything.
Hillary Clinton— Jim Lehrer News Hour, when asked if she keeps a diary, hours before a jury in Little Rock, Arkansas, returned guilty verdicts against Clintons' business partners; May 29, 1996 [2] [3]
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 Clinton— Keynote Address at the Vital Voices Conference in Vienna, Austria (11 July 1997)
Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.
Hillary Clinton— Sound file (13 September 2001)
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 Clinton— April 28, 2003 at the annual Democratic Party Jefferson-Jackson-Bailey Day fund raising dinner in Connecticut.
I wonder if it's possible to be a Republican and a Christian at the same time.
Hillary Clinton— C-SPAN broadcast (21 June 2004)
In defeating terror, Israel’s cause is our cause.
Hillary Clinton— Hanukkah dinner speech at Yeshiva University (December 2005)
It is time to put policy ahead of politics and success ahead of the status quo. It is time for a new strategy to produce what we need: a stable Iraq government that takes over for its own people so our troops can finish their job.
Hillary Clinton— Speech in US Senate (21 June 2006)
From almost the first day they got into office, they (President Bush and Vice President Cheney) were trying to figure out how to get rid of Saddam Hussein. I’m not a psychiatrist – I don’t know all of the reasons behind their concern, some might say their obsession.
Hillary Clinton— Town Hall speech, Berlin, NH, as reported in The New York Times (10 February 2007)
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. [5]
I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all.
Hillary Clinton— Reply to a question whether her proposals can be implemented without increasing the national debt, October 11, 2007. [9]
I'm so grateful this day has ended well.
Hillary Clinton— In response to the closure of the Campaign office hostage crisis. [10]
It did take a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, and I think it might take another one to clean up after the second Bush.
Hillary Clinton— CNN (Presidential campaign (January 20, 2007 – 2008))
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.
It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.
Hillary Clinton— Sound bite reported in Time, February 20, 2008. [13]
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 [15]; see relevant quote above, two days earlier
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 Clinton— Iowa stump speech. [17]
They have done so much day in and day out and I want to thank all my friends and family, particularly my mother, who was born before women could vote, and is watching her daughter on this stage tonight.
Hillary Clinton— February 5, 2008 Super Tuesday Address [18]
Rich people, God bless us. We deserve all the opportunities to make sure our country and our blessings continue to the next generation.
Hillary Clinton— FOX News interview with Bill O'Reilly, April 30, 2008.
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 [27]
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 Clinton— [29], Washington D.C., June 7, 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 Clinton— Concession speech, Washington D.C., June 7, 2008.
Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.
Hillary Clinton— European Parliament, Brussels, March 6, 2009. [30]
I have absolutely no interest in running for president again.
Hillary Clinton— ABC News TV interview, 2009-10-14. AFP
We came, we saw, he died.
Hillary Clinton— Reaction shortly after learning about the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, CBS News interview, October 20, 2011 Daily Mail CBS News
Gay rights are human rights.
Hillary Clinton— Quoted in The Week, 10 December 2011, p. 10
