Hillary Clinton Quotes

Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime, but it does a lot to tear apart families, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

Historically, it is important to try to understand your adversary in order to figure out how they are thinking, what they will be doing, how they will react.

I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.

When we didn't succeed at healthcare reform back in 1993, 1994, I went to work with Democrats and Republicans and we created the Children's Health Insurance Program.

I think there should be national standards on the use of legal force.

Presidents should be very careful at all times in discussing the use or non-use of nuclear weapons. Presidents since the cold war have used nuclear deterrence to keep the peace, and I don't believe that any president should make any blanket statements with respect to the use or non-use of nuclear weapons.

There is no disagreement between us [with Bernie Sanders ] on universal coverage for health care, the disagreement is where do we start from and where do we end up.

I drink tons of water. Just as much water as I can possibly drink.

I want to get everybody out of the shadows, get the economy working, and not let employers like Donald Trump exploit undocumented workers, which hurts them, but also hurts American workers.

We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness.

We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!

I have more understanding, more compassion. I am on a much more important quest for the truth than any of you. You just don't want me to be president.

I think it's so important for all of us to be able to see ourselves represented in the books we read and the movies and TV shows we watch.

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.

I am determined that we're going to get the economy really moving again, building on the progress, but never going back to what got us in trouble in the first place.

As president, I will take that work, that bipartisan work, that finding common ground, because you have to be able to get along with people to get things done in Washington.

I've spent 30 years, actually maybe a little more, working to help kids and families. And I want to take all that experience to the White House and do that every single day.

We are, however, producing a lot of natural gas, which serves as a bridge to more renewable fuels. And I think that's an important transition.

I agree with the president [Barack Obama]. I've said myself, we will not send American combat troops back to either Syria or Iraq - that is off the table.

The right to express one's views, practice one's faith, peacefully assemble with others to pursue political or social change - these are all rights to which all human beings are entitled, whether they choose to exercise them in a city square or an Internet chat room. And just as we have worked together since the last century to secure these rights in the material world, we must work together in this century to secure them in cyberspace.

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.

Knowing what to expect next gives children a sense of security.

I think it's a false trade-off to say quality time versus quantity - you have to have both.

America is great, because America is good. And it really is up to all of us to make that true, now and in the future, and particularly for our children and our grandchildren.

The Russian people deserve free and fair elections. They deserve to have a democracy.

[Donald Trump ] who has said women don't deserve equal pay unless they do as good a job as men.

The children-my own and other people's-became the passion of my personal and professional life.

You've got to be willing to work, and if you're willing to work, you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead.

Don't let anyone tell you that great things can't happen in America... Barriers can come down. Justice and equality can win.

I think that's why I'm so well-suited to this time, because I think the values reflect really profound American values, and I think my agenda would be the best way to really get Americans once again to feel more confident and more optimistic about our future and deliver results, which I think is what it's about.

I've met people who were destroyed by Donald Trump.

Part of diplomacy, the hard work of diplomacy is trying to extract whatever concessions you can get, and giving something the other side wants. Of course you've got to try to make peace with, and work with those who are your adversaries, but you don't just rush in, open the door, and say, "Here I am. Let's talk and make a deal."

I've said this before and I'm very proud of it, that when it comes to judgment, having run a hard race against Senator [Barack] Obama at the time, he turned to me to be secretary of State. And when it comes to the biggest counterterrorism issues that we faced in this administration, namely whether or not to go after bin Laden, I was at that table, I was exercising my judgment to advise the president on what to do, on that, on Iran, on Russia on China, on a whole raft of issues.

I'm going to try to get everybody who makes less than $125,000 in their family, which is the vast majority of people, to be able to go to a public college or university totally tuition-free. And if you make more than that, debt-free.

I have absolutely no interest in running for president again. None. None. I mean, I know that's hard for some people to believe, but, you know, I just don't.

People have to know that they can count on you, that you won`t say one thing one day and something totally different the next.

The kind of plan that Donald [Tramp] has put forth would be trickle-down economics all over again. In fact, it would be the most extreme version, the biggest tax cuts for the top percent of the people in this country than we've ever had.

A respected health economist said that these plans would cost a trillion dollars more a year.

Donald Trump always is looking for some conspiracy.

I saw Donald [Trump] saying that there were some Iranian sailors on a ship in the waters off of Iran, and they were taunting American sailors who were on a nearby ship. He said, you know, if they taunted our sailors, I'd blow them out of the water and start another war. That's not good judgment.

If Hollywood and Bollywood were how we all lived our lives, that would surprise me. And yet it's often the way our cultures are conveyed, isn't it?

We used to say in the White House that if a place is too dangerous, too small or too poor, send the First Lady.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should not still be in poverty.

I would also do everything possible to take out their leadership.

I know you [Donald Trump] live in your own reality, but that is not the facts.

It wasn't until 1998 that I ever seriously thought about running for office. And I didn't make up my mind to do that until 1999, and then I ran for the Senate. It was really hard for me.