Top 500 Hillary Clinton Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “You know, I’m going to start thanking the woman who cleans the restroom in the building I work in. I’m going to start thinking of her as a human being.”

— Hillary Clinton

252. “I have to defend my husband.”

— Hillary Clinton

253. “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.”

— Hillary Clinton

254. “When women thrive, economies thrive.”

— Hillary Clinton

255. “No nation can meet the world’s challenges alone.”

— Hillary Clinton

256. “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.”

— Hillary Clinton

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257. “If we only stopped to listen to them for a few minutes, kids could tell us that we move too fast, for their good and ours.”

— Hillary Clinton

258. “Women offer unique contributions to making and keeping peace – and that those contributions lead to better outcomes not just for women, but for entire societies.”

— Hillary Clinton

259. “Laws that discriminate validate other kinds of discrimination.”

— Hillary Clinton

260. “Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.”

— Hillary Clinton

261. “Research shows the presence of women raises the standards of ethical behavior and lowers corruption.”

— Hillary Clinton

262. “I want to make change, but I’ve already made change. I will continue to make change. I’m not just running on a promise of change. I’m running on 35 years of change.”

— Hillary Clinton

263. “Don’t you someday want to see a woman president of the United States of America?”

— Hillary Clinton

264. “I’m 100 percent impartial. I’m – my responsibility is to manage this primary nominating contest neutrally and fairly.”

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Hillary Clinton

266. “We need to have a resolve that will bring the world together to root out the kind of radical jihadist ideology that motivates organizations like ISIS, a barbaric, ruthless, violent jihadist terrorist group.”

— Hillary Clinton

267. “It is a violation of human rights when governments declare it illegal to be gay.”

— Hillary Clinton

268. “I would say to the new leadership the American people are ready to meet you if you move forward toward the path of democracy.”

— Hillary Clinton

269. “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.”

— Hillary Clinton

270. “We must realize that our destiny is strongly linked to the destiny of the poorest on this planet.”

— Hillary Clinton

271. “Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.”

— Hillary Clinton

272. “The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq’s economy.”

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Hillary Clinton

274. “Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.”

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Hillary Clinton

276. “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.”

— Hillary Clinton

277. “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.”

— Hillary Clinton

278. “You have to be true to yourself.”

— Hillary Clinton

279. “Often those who are denied rights are least empowered to bring about the changes they seek.”

— Hillary Clinton

280. “If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.”

— Hillary Clinton

281. “I’ve had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.”

— Hillary Clinton

282. “I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002.”

— Hillary Clinton

283. “I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, ‘How do we calculate the risk?’ And sometimes we don’t calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it.”

— Hillary Clinton

284. “It’s important to underscore this overriding fact: women are not just victims of conflict-they are agents of peace and agents of change.”

— Hillary Clinton

285. “From my perspective, you get up every day and you get out there and you make your case, and you reach as many people as possible.”

— Hillary Clinton

286. “I need people to know that there is a group of people who are part of the leadership of the DNC, and I will make damn sure as a vice chair, and so will others, that we do everything humanly possible to have a level playing field.”

— Hillary Clinton

287. “You never know in retrospect whether you did or didn’t do exactly the right thing, stay-at-home mothers, gone-away mothers, all ofus worry whether we should have done something differently than we did.”

— Hillary Clinton

288. “One person’s fashion is another person’s disaster.”

— Hillary Clinton

289. “I’m running for president because everyday Americans and their families need a champion, and I want to be that champion. I want to make the words middle class mean something again.”

— Hillary Clinton

290. “I think we’ve got to understand the complexity of the world that we are facing and no place is more so than in the Middle East.”

— Hillary Clinton

291. “America can’t succeed unless you succeed. That is why I am running for president of the United States.”

— Hillary Clinton

292. “I’ve always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there.”

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Hillary Clinton

294. “I want a strong military. But I do not believe, among other things, that without an audit, we should be throwing tens of billions of dollars more into the Department of Defense.”

— Hillary Clinton

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295. “I have a million ideas. The country can’t afford them all.”

— Hillary Clinton

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296. “No practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us.”

— Hillary Clinton

297. “We cannot let a minority of people hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people.”

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Hillary Clinton

299. “I don’t spend my hours plotting for somebody else’s downfall.”

— Hillary Clinton

300. “I really deplore the tone of his campaign and the inflammatory rhetoric that he is using to divide people. I don’t know that Donald Trump has any boundaries at all.”

— Hillary Clinton