Hillary Clinton Quotes

You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.

Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

As long as there are those who are willing to shed blood and take innocent life in the name of religion, the name of God, the world will never know a true and lasting peace.

The consciousness-raising, the advocacy, the passion, the youth of your movement is so critical.

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

There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard.

Today we voted as Democrats and Republicans. Tomorrow we begin again as New Yorkers.

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.

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.

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.

I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.

There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.

Let's prove that the American dream is big enough for everyone to share in its promise.

I care a lot about Colorado. I consider it a state that is helping to shape the future.

Stop-and-frisk was found to be unconstitutional and, in part, because it was ineffective. It did not do what it needed to do.

I respect the Second Amendment. But I believe there should be comprehensive background checks, and we should close the gun show loophole, and close the online loophole.

Every woman, whoever she is, wherever she lives, should be able to give birth without the fear she's going to lose her baby or that her baby will lose her mother.

[Donald] Trump has a great capacity to use bluster and bigotry to inflame people.He is becoming ISIS's best recruiter.

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.

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

We have to tackle the plague of gun violence.

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

The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful.

Every nation has to either be with us or against us. Those who harbor terrorists or who finance them, uh, are going to pay a price.

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.

It’s always surprising to me how many young women think they have to be perfect. I rarely meet a young man who doesn’t think he already is.

When women participate in the economy, everyone benefits.

Do what is necessary to be resilient. You will get knocked down. What matters is that you get back up.

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.

I do not think homosexuality is immoral.

He ran a gas station down in St. Louis. No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.

Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is . . . For me, that balance is family, work, and service.

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

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 think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.

I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

I believe in a zone of privacy.

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.

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.

There's a different leader in Syria now. Many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have said they believe he's a reformer.

[Muammar] Gaddafi probably had more blood on his hands of Americans than anybody else.

You know, there's a great saying in Texas - you've all heard it - "all hat and no cattle." Well, after seven years of George Bush, we need a lot less hat and a lot more cattle.

And please, please, lets us put mental health back on the top of our national agenda, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven.

We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.