Quotes By Hillary Clinton

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

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 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.

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

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.

The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.

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.

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

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.

Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.

Egypt is a large, complex, very important country.

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.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.

Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.