Top 500 Hillary Clinton Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “My parents always stressed the importance of education, working hard in school and learning as much as possible. They also encouraged me to value myself and believe in myself and do what I thought was right for me.”

— Hillary Clinton

102. “I just want to sleep and exercise and travel for fun. And relax. It sounds so ordinary, but I haven’t done it for 20 years.”

— Hillary Clinton

103. “When women participate in the economy everyone benefits.”

— Hillary Clinton

104. “It’s time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity.”

— Hillary Clinton

105. “It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.”

— Hillary Clinton

106. “Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.”

— Hillary Clinton

107. “We are going backwards in a field that’s supposed to be all about moving forward.”

— Hillary Clinton

108. “Being LGBT does not make you less human.”

— Hillary Clinton

109. “There is no substitute for love and caring and compassion and human beings helping one another.”

— Hillary Clinton

110. “Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation.”

— Hillary Clinton

111. “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.”

— Hillary Clinton

112. “I remember, particularly, a trip to Bosnia where the welcoming ceremony had to be moved inside because of sniper fire.”

— Hillary Clinton

113. “The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.”

— Hillary Clinton

114. “You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.”

— Hillary Clinton

115. “When I was growing up, my parents always told me that I had to do what I thought was right and not listen to other people. That was hard for me.”

— Hillary Clinton

116. “What difference, at this point, does it make?”

— Hillary Clinton

117. “If a country doesn’t recognize minority rights and human rights, including women’s rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.”

— Hillary Clinton

118. “I believe marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman.”

— Hillary Clinton

119. “I did not have textual relations with that server.”

— Hillary Clinton

120. “The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.”

— Hillary Clinton

121. “Let’s be honest, for a lot of well meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.”

— Hillary Clinton

122. “I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.”

— Hillary Clinton

123. “We can’t be fighting the last war. We have to be preparing to fight the new war.”

— Hillary Clinton

124. “I believe capital gains, for the most part, should be taxed the same way we tax income from hard work, sweat, and toil. And if we do those things, we can be a country that actually can afford debt-free college again.”

— Hillary Clinton

125. “Of course, parents are the most important people in a child’s life.”

— Hillary Clinton

126. “I always believed you could learn something from nearly everybody you meet, if you’re open to it.”

— Hillary Clinton

127. “The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they’re not.”

— Hillary Clinton

128. “I have many, many old friends, and I always think that it’s important, when you get into politics, to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what’s on their minds.”

— Hillary Clinton

129. “We believe strongly that the road to peace and two states living side by side does not go through New York, it goes through Jerusalem and Ramallah.”

— Hillary Clinton

130. “No one wants their personal emails made public, and I think most people understand that and respect that privacy.”

— Hillary Clinton

131. “American values are not just about America, but they speak to the human dignity, the God-given spark that resides in each and every person across the world.”

— Hillary Clinton

132. “I think you know by now that I’ve been called many things by many people. Quitter is not one of them.”

— Hillary Clinton

133. “We need to be as well prepared to defend ourselves against public health dangers as we should be to defend ourselves against any foreign danger.”

— Hillary Clinton

134. “True transformation only comes from sustainable strategies.”

— Hillary Clinton

135. “I can survive setbacks, I’ve survived a lot of setbacks in my life. I don’t see them as anything other than the natural ebb and flow of life and politics.”

— Hillary Clinton

136. “What the champions of suffrage understood was that the vote is not just a symbol of our equality, but that it can be, if used, a guarantee of results.”

— Hillary Clinton

137. “The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.”

— Hillary Clinton

138. “Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don’t.”

— Hillary Clinton

139. “In defeating terror, Israel’s cause is our cause.”

— Hillary Clinton

140. “It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows.”

— Hillary Clinton

141. “There’s no day that is the same as the day before. So you have to be energized; you have to be focused.”

— Hillary Clinton

142. “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.”

— Hillary Clinton

143. “I think when somebody’s out in the public eye, that’s what they do. So I’m fully comfortable with who I am, what I stand for, and what I’ve always stood for.”

— Hillary Clinton

144. “I challenge assumptions about women.”

— Hillary Clinton

145. “You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don’t they?”

— Hillary Clinton

146. “When you’re president, you can’t vote present. You have to make a decision. Sometimes it’s a split second decision. You don’t have time to think about it. You’ve got to actually decide.”

— Hillary Clinton

147. “We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.”

— Hillary Clinton

148. “Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.”

— Hillary Clinton

149. “My own country’s record on human rights for gay people is far from perfect.”

— Hillary Clinton

150. “I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion.”

— Hillary Clinton