Top 1934 Quotes & Sayings by Hillary Clinton - Page 5

Putin is playing the long game. He has a strategic plan in mind: the Eurasian Union, which would be in competition to Europe.

Hamas, we know, embeds missiles, embeds command-and-control units in civilian areas.

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

I learned to be far more skeptical of what I'm told by presidents, no matter who the presidents are, and also to be much more cautious, always, in any action or vote that could lead to the use of American military power and most particularly what we call 'boots on the ground.'

You don't make peace with your friends. That's the bottom line. You end conflicts by trying to find some political resolution.

When you're down on yourself, and when you are hunkering down and pulling back, you're not going to make any better decisions than when you were aggressively, belligerently putting yourself forward.

I respect the Congress's oversight responsibility.

My favorite short stories are by Alice Munro, especially her collections 'Carried Away' and 'Runaway.'

There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.

I really get up every day and try to deal with the problems that are in front of me, and I don't really worry about history. That will work itself out over time.

George W. Bush is very popular in Sub-Saharan Africa. Why? Because of PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief.

I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen and Alice Walker.

When I negotiated the ceasefire in Gaza with President Morsi, he was, you know, very involved.

When women participate in peace-making and peace-keeping, we are all safer and more secure.

I want to work with my husband and my daughter on our mutual foundation interests.

When you have armed militants, aided and abetted by a major country like Russia, able to use surface-to-air missiles to bring down a commercial airline, that is a form of terrorism.

One of the biggest problems that Egypt faces is the lack of border security - the importation of weapons on their way to Gaza, for example, coming out of Sudan.

The Arctic is going to be an area of intense interest. Russia has the longest coastline in the world with the Arctic.

I happen to have given lots of free speeches.

I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company, as so many people who leave public life do.

The most important questions for anybody thinking of running for president are not 'Will you run and can you win?' There is, 'What is your vision for America? And can you lead us there?'

Remember, before they called it Obamacare, they called it Hillarycare.

If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk.

I've been in the hospital once when I had my daughter, and, oh, when I broke my elbow, but other than that, I've been very fortunate.

Look at climate change; don't put your head in the sand. Understand that it is going to have profound effects on our resources and so much else.

This is what we call smart power. Using every possible tool and partner to advance peace and security. Leaving no one on the sidelines. Showing respect even for one's enemies. Trying to understand, in so far as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view. Helping to define the problems, determine the solutions.

I don't think about a legacy; I think about my life, because I've had quite an unpredictable life.

I was not going to attack Palin just for being a woman appealing for support from other women.

When I chose to leave a career as a young lawyer in Washington to move to Arkansas to marry Bill and start a family, my friends asked, 'Are you out of your mind?'

I have known several presidents quite well, including my husband, and I worked closely with President George W. Bush and the White House then after 9/11, and I served with President Obama. I disagree with all three of those presidents on certain things.

With respect to Iraq, I did favour the continuity of American forces to work with the new Maliki government. They had enormous needs for intelligence, for training on everything from airplanes to more sophisticated ground equipment and the like.

Everybody feels they have been trespassed upon, and nearly everybody has trespassed on somebody else, maybe not intentionally.

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

I would be delighted if the United States could have a positive relationship with Russia, and I would be thrilled if the Russian people, who are so capable, had a normal country that they could chart a different future.

To me you cannot be fully human, fully civilised, unless you recognise humanity in everyone.

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

Remember, the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, have a working relationship with the Palestinian Authority security forces, which have been incredibly professional.

I think every election is sui generis. I think it starts with where we are in the country at this time, with what Americans are thinking, feeling and hoping, and it proceeds from there. And it is always about the future.

I'm somebody who gets up every day and says, 'What am I going to do today, and how am I going to do it?' I think it moves me toward some outcome I'm hoping for and also has some, you know, some joy attached to it.

Americans deserve to feel secure in their own lives, in their own middle-class aspirations, before you go to them and say, 'We're going to have to enforce navigable sea lanes in the South China Sea.'

Struggles do not end when countries attempt the transition to democracy.

I had a family that supported me.

I wish I had some stock in a scrunchie company.

Israel has a right to defend itself.

I have been working or attending school full time since I was 13.

I believe in transparency.

When it comes to the Middle East, this is always a very difficult issue for any American president.

American politics is always an open competition.

There are some people in politics and in the press who can't be confused by the facts. They just will not live in an evidence-based world. And that's regrettable.

I've spent so many years commuting, I kind of prefer a home office.

My overall goal is to level the playing field for American businesses.

My biggest, you know, regret is what happened in Benghazi. It was a terrible tragedy losing four Americans - two diplomats and, now it's public so I can say, two CIA operatives.

I helped to restore America's leadership.

When I was younger and women first started to get in public positions, in my case the law, we went through a period where we wore those little ribbon ties, little bows. We tried to figure out what was our appropriate dress.

If you can't compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries.

You know, one of the things my husband says when people say 'Well, what did you bring to Washington,' he said, 'Well, I brought arithmetic.'

When I traveled as secretary of state, I was deluged with thick briefing books full of information about the politics, economy, and culture of each destination, so those took up most of my reading time.

One of the great things about my mother is she really valued people's character more than what they did.

I am not going to comment on what I did or did not say back in the late '90s.

I have a lot of reason to believe, as we saw in the 2012 election, most Americans don't agree with the extremists on any side of an issue, but there needs to continue to be an effort to find common ground, or even take it to higher ground on behalf of the future.