Top 500 Hillary Clinton Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “While I may not be the youngest candidate in this race, but I will be the youngest woman president in the history of the United States.”

— Hillary Clinton

252. “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

253. “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

254. “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

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Hillary Clinton

259. “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

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

— Hillary Clinton

261. “All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.”

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Hillary Clinton

264. “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

265. “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

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

— Hillary Clinton

267. “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

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Hillary Clinton

270. “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

271. “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

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Hillary Clinton

275. “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

276. “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

277. “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

278. “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

279. “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

280. “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

281. “We used to say in the White House that if a place is too dangerous, too small or too poor, send the First Lady.”

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Hillary Clinton

285. “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

286. “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

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Hillary Clinton

291. “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

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

— Hillary Clinton

293. “I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I’ve had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.”

— Hillary Clinton

294. “Small children and unruly people who are demanding attention.”

— Hillary Clinton

295. “Every day Americans and their families need a champion, a champion who will fight for them every single day. And I want to be that champion. I want to get up every single day going to work for you, standing up for you.”

— Hillary Clinton

296. “I sometimes think that I didn’t leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.”

— Hillary Clinton

297. “The deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top. And there’s something wrong with that. There’s something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the typical worker.”

— Hillary Clinton

298. “Lifting whole passages from someone else’s speeches is not change you can believe in. It’s change you can Xerox.”

— Hillary Clinton

299. “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

300. “I have won elections and I have lost elections.”

— Hillary Clinton