Top 500 Hillary Clinton Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “I won the youth vote in Massachusetts and in California. I did very well with it in Ohio.”

— Hillary Clinton

402. “As a Christian, part of my obligation is to alleviate suffering. Explicit recognition of that in the Methodist tradition is one reason I’m comfortable in this church.”

— Hillary Clinton

403. “You’re going to get a lot of advice coming from many different quarters to do things that don’t feel right to you, that don’t reflect who you are and what your values are. So you have to be grounded in who you are and what you believe.”

— Hillary Clinton

404. “The United States has, unfortunately, been victimized by terrorism going back decades.”

— Hillary Clinton

405. “The first step is to take weapons off the streets and to put more police on them.”

— Hillary Clinton

406. “Reconciling with an adversary that can be as brutal as the Taliban sounds distasteful, even unimaginable. And diplomacy would be easy if we only had to talk to our friends. But that is not how one makes peace.”

— Hillary Clinton

407. “I think from a moral issue, CEOs should not be making – whether it’s 270 or 300 times more than their workers are making.”

— Hillary Clinton

408. “I mean you’ve got a conservative and right-winged press presence with really nothing on the other end of the political spectrum.”

— Hillary Clinton

409. “I have absolutely no interest in running for president again.”

— Hillary Clinton

410. “There is no formula that I’m aware of for being a successful or fulfilled woman today.”

— Hillary Clinton

411. “Does it make any sense at all that the chair of a national party would want fewer voters to see our candidates?”

— Hillary Clinton

412. “I’m not running for some Americans but for all Americans.”

— Hillary Clinton

413. “The safe haven that al-Qaida has found in Pakistan is very troubling.”

— Hillary Clinton

414. “In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.”

— Hillary Clinton

415. “You Don’t Have to Be Perfect. Most Men Never Think Like That.”

— Hillary Clinton

416. “There are those who offer themselves as leaders who even play politics with a nomination of our nations chief law enforcement officer, finally, Loretta Lynch will be able to assume the position she has trained her lifetime for.”

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Hillary Clinton

418. “In this changing, complex and exciting world with exploding expectations, we need to find some common ground. We need people and ideas to turn to bind us, and Mahatma Gandhi with his message of oneness for mankind is one of them.”

— Hillary Clinton

419. “I’ll get involved in philanthropy.”

— Hillary Clinton

420. “We acknowledge-now with President Obama-that we have made mistakes in the United States, and we along with other developed countries have contributed most significantly to the problem we face with climate change.”

— Hillary Clinton

421. “I never thought I would end up being the Senator from New York.”

— Hillary Clinton

422. “No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so.”

— Hillary Clinton

423. “The way to continue our fight now to accomplish the goals for which we stand is to take our energy, our passion, our strength and do all we can to help elect Barack Obama.”

— Hillary Clinton

424. “While we are each free to believe whatever we choose, we cannot do whatever we choose.”

— Hillary Clinton

425. “I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.”

— Hillary Clinton

426. “I’m not going to put my lot in with economists.”

— Hillary Clinton

427. “As love and joy flood our streets today, it is hard to imagine how anyone could deny the full protection of our laws to any of our fellow Americans – but there are those who would.”

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Hillary Clinton

429. “I don’t think that strategically it is smart to begin cutting your options when the other side does not move at all.”

— Hillary Clinton

430. “I don’t ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that.”

— Hillary Clinton

431. “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.”

— Hillary Clinton

432. “I think that like most people I know, I have a range of views, but they are rooted in my values and experience.”

— Hillary Clinton

433. “Donald Trump bigotry, his bluster, his bullying, have become his campaign.”

— Hillary Clinton

434. “Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.”

— Hillary Clinton

435. “Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law-end of story.”

— Hillary Clinton

436. “Democracy can’t be just for billionaires and corporations.”

— Hillary Clinton

437. “We Democrats believe in an America where no matter who you are or where you come from, you should have an equal shot at success.”

— Hillary Clinton

438. “I’m in charge of the State Department’s 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts.”

— Hillary Clinton

439. “Prosperity can’t be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can’t be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too.”

— Hillary Clinton

440. “I think it’s fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you’re the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.”

— Hillary Clinton

441. “What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.”

— Hillary Clinton

442. “I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position.”

— Hillary Clinton

443. “I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal e-mails than two. I did it for convenience and I now looking back think that it might have been smarter to have those two devices from the very beginning.”

— Hillary Clinton

444. “At a time of change and challenge at home and abroad, these investments will enhance the security of Americans, assure the future American leadership, and help build the foundations of peace, stability, and prosperity in the years ahead.”

— Hillary Clinton

445. “We currently have a system for taking care of sickness. We do not have a system for enhancing and promoting health.”

— Hillary Clinton

446. “I took the unprecedented step of asking that the State Department make all my work-related emails public for everyone to see.”

— Hillary Clinton

447. “Historically, it is important to try to understand your adversary in order to figure out how they are thinking, what they will be doing, how they will react.”

— Hillary Clinton

448. “From the theft of confidential cables to 21st-century protest movements, to development breakthroughs that have the potential to change millions of lives, we are all in uncharted territory.”

— Hillary Clinton

449. “We cannot eradicate violence if we do not build strong, inclusive communities.”

— Hillary Clinton

450. “When you are engaged in both trying to kill and capture the enemy and get support from the local population, you have to be always asking yourself, “Is what I’m doing keeping that balance?””

— Hillary Clinton