Quotes By Hillary Clinton

I have a lot of stamina and I have a lot of resilience.

Dynamism is a function of change.

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.

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 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.

You can go into neighborhoods in the United States where people dress a certain way because they don't want to be out of touch, where boys wear pants down to their knees, which nobody has compelled them to do but they pick up the cultural norms, or where girls are improperly dressed by my eyes, but that's what they see in the media.

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

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

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

I don't think that strategically it is smart to begin cutting your options when the other side does not move at all.

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.

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

Well, human security is a concept that I am very committed to enshrining in American foreign policy.

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.

You know, my view is that we have a big world out there.

In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.

Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.

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

I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now.

Look, I'm outspoken.

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

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.

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

I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations.

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.

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

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.

I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.