Top 1934 Quotes & Sayings by Hillary Clinton - Page 3

I can't stand whining.

The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.

Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.

I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.

I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.

I sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.

I've been really at the highest levels of American political life.

We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally.

I think I'm chronically exhausted.

There's no day that is the same as the day before. So you have to be energized; you have to be focused.

You have to be true to yourself.

When a new president comes in, a new president gets to clean house.

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

I take vitamins.

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

It should never be a crime to be gay.

I always run inclusive and successful organisations.

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

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

We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, 'Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is.

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

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

I've always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there.

My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.

Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.

When my hair was shorter, I used to get it done every couple of days... but I got tired of that.

There's a certain consistency to who I am and what I do, and I think people have finally said, 'Well, you know, I kinda get her now.' I've actually had people say that to me.

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

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 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.

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.

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

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

I have won elections and I have lost elections.

I feel like every day, every minute I have to make the most of.

I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

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

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

You know no one will ever accuse me as having the same policies as George W. Bush.

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.

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.

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.

I'm too old to be a yuppie.

I certainly don't read coverage of me, I read what else is going on that I need to know about to do my job.

Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel, which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people.

No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.

I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.

I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do.

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.

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and fears from friends, allies, around the world.

On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.

There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.

My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.

When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.

When you're the presidential nominee you get to pick whomever you choose to be on the ticket, and that person gets to say yes or no because, obviously, it's a very important decision.