Hillary Clinton Quotes

We do always have to make sure we keep people safe.

Let's defend overtime and go after wage theft.

While millions of American families, including mine and yours, were working hard paying our fair share, it seems Donald Trump was contributing nothing to our nation. Imagine that. Not fair. Nothing for Pell grants to help kids go to college. Nothing for veterans. Nothing for our military.

I believe that you have to withstand whatever problems come your way. You have to make the decisions that are best for you.

We have a lot of kids who don't know what works means. They think work is a four-letter word.

People support me because they know me. They know my life's work. They have worked with me and many have also worked with Senator [Bernie] Sanders. And at the end of the day they endorse me because they know I can get things done.

I have stood up and I have represented my constituents to the best of my abilities, and I'm very proud of that.

A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not only of the region but beyond.

One of the worst things [Donald Trump] said was about a woman in a beauty contest. He loves beauty contests, supporting them and hanging around them. And he called this woman "Miss Piggy." Then he called her "Miss Housekeeping," because she was Latina. Donald, she has a name.

People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.

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 know, Barack Obama is a man of great dignity. And I could tell how much it bothered him and annoyed him that this [birther lie] was being touted and used against him.

I am not taking a position on any policy, but I do think there is a growing sense of anxiety and even anger in America over the feeling that the game is rigged. And I never had that feeling when I was growing up. Never.

I don't want people who just tell me what they think I want to hear, because that doesn't do me any good.

Unfortunately, there's been a lot of very divisive, dark things said about Muslims.

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

I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.

There is such a bias against people who have led successful and/or complicated lives. You know, the divestment of assets, the stripping of all kinds of positions, the sale of stocks. It just becomes very onerous and unnecessary.

I'm going to do everything I can to be the best president I can be for all America.

Drug companies should not be allowed to reap excessive profits or spend unreasonable amounts on marketing if they want to receive support that is designed to encourage life- saving and health-improving treatments.

I stand in support of this common sense legislation to license everyone who wishes to purchase a gun...I also believe that every new handgun sale or transfer should be registered in a national registry

I wonder if it's possible to be a Republican and a Christian at the same time.

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

I want people in all the government agencies to be communicating with people because for me, we're in an era - which didn't exist before - where you can have instant access to information, and I want to see my government be more transparent.

When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.

Families are the bedrock of our society.

We're now on the precipice of having a potentially much better economy, but the last thing we need to do is to go back to the policies that failed us in the first place.

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

We can't wait any longer for a path to full and equal citizenship. Now, this is where I differ with everybody on the Republican side. Make no mistake, today, not a single Republican candidate, announced or potential, is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship. Not one. When they talk about legal status that is code for second-class status.

President Obama's made the White House really the people's house. People feel like they're welcome.

At the risk of appearing predictable, the Bible was and remains the biggest influence on my thinking. I was raised reading it, memorizing passages from it and being guided by it. I still find it a source of wisdom, comfort and encouragement.

Look, [Hillary Clinton] is been proven to be a liar on so many different ways. This is just another lie.

As women and as lawyers, we must never again shy from raising our voices against sexual harassment.

I feel like there's the 'Hillary standard' and then there's the standard for everybody else.

I think that I have been clear that demonizing and demagoguing about Muslims is not only offensive it is dangerous and it plays into ISIS's hands.

Small children and unruly people who are demanding attention.

You have the power to pursue your own dreams.

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

I believe in America, and I still do.

I have been very consistent over the course of my entire life. I have always fought for the same values and principles.

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

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.

[The Republicans] all want to see women's rights eroded and for abortion to become illegal again.

I'm in charge of the State Department's 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts.

Right now, we don't have any leadership from White House to try to understand what our principal foreign adversary was doing to interfere with our elections, to, in effect, destabilize our democracy. So, I think this is - this should be of interest to any American.

America and Mexico are both a nation of immigrants and we are a nation of laws and we can act accordingly.

When I think about what we now know about Donald Trump and what he's been doing for 30 years, he sure has spent a lot of time demeaning, degrading, insulting, and assaulting women.

Maybe Donald Trump doesn't want the American people to know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes, because the only years that anybody's ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license, and they showed he didn't pay any federal income tax.