Quotes By Hillary Clinton

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

You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that's bad for everybody.

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.

My two secrets to staying healthy: wash your hands all the time. And, if you can't, use Purell or one of the sanitizers. And the other is hot peppers. I eat a lot of hot peppers. I for some reason started doing that in 1992, and I swear by it.

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.

It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back.

I believe in delegating power.

It's true that America can't solve every problem, but I don't know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us.

We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.

I'll get involved in philanthropy.

You have to test your ideas in a public forum.

The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.

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.

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigration.

There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.

I don't have any comment on who the people of Russia choose to be their leaders.

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.

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 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.

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.