Hillary Clinton Quotes

Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top.

Hillary Clinton

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• I love the Americans. They are my best friends.

  

  Idi Amin
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Americans

• The honor you have given us goes not to us as a crew, but to ... all Americans, who believed, who persevered with us. What Apollo has begun we hope will spread out in many directions, not just in space, but underneath the seas, and in the cities to tell us unforgettably what we will and must do. There are footprints on the moon. Those footprints belong to each and every one of you, to all mankind. They are there because of the blood, sweat, and tears of millions of people. Those footprints are the symbol of true human spirit.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• I participated with great honor in becoming one of the first to land on the moon, and now I am devoting and have devoted many years of my life to enabling Americans to lead international nations to permanence on the planet Mars.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Life
  • Great
  • Honor

• Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go on like this forever. Just as it is. No change.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Believe
  • History
  • Forever

• It is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Americans
  • Statement

• I think the vast majority of Americans would have supported military action to stop the second plane from hitting the World Trade Center, if that had been possible. I would have been among them.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Action
  • Stop

• When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they could of their land and valuables, and respecting almost nothing about the native cultures. They lost the wisdom of the indigenous peoples-wisdom about the land and connectedness to the great web of life...We have another chance with all these refugees. People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs. We can teach and learn from each other to produce a better America.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Liberty
  • Americans
  • Lions

• Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Americans
  • Cruel
  • Dollar

• In a sense, all Americans are battle-born. Our ancestors came here for something better.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Sense
  • Americans
  • Battle-born

• It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Americans
  • Granted
  • Prudent

• I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up the globe. ... The Americans are great boilermakers.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Pressure
  • Americans
  • Globe

• Today the United States House has courageously stood up for basic fairness for LGBT Americans. T his is a tremendous day for our entire LGBT community.

  

  Chris Barron Spin Doctors
  • House
  • United States
  • Americans

• Wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • System
  • Americans
  • Benefit

• For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Americans
  • Sport
  • Economic growth

• One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in universal primary education; then the “high school movement” made us the first nation to embrace widespread secondary education.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Education
  • Support
  • Americans

• Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Universe
  • Americans
  • Traveling

• Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Americans
  • Lovers
  • Corrected

• American parents, teachers, and children were far more likely than their Japanese and Chinese counterparts to believe that mathematical ability is innate; if you have it, you don’t have to work hard, and if you don’t have it, there’s no point in trying. In contrast, most Asians regard math success, like achievement in any other domain, as a matter of persistence and plain hard work. Of course you will make mistakes as you go along; that’s how you learn and improve. It doesn’t mean you are stupid.

  

  Carol Tavris
  • Believe
  • Ability
  • Americans

• Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

  

  Richard Pousette-Dart
  • Painting
  • Dynamic
  • Wholeness

• The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.

  

  Joshua Leonard
  • Character
  • Circumstances
  • Connections

• I know more English than Spanish, but I'm always a little embarrassed.

  

  Romain Duris
  • Knows
  • Embarrassed

• Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Americans
  • Economic times