Hillary Clinton Quotes

Personally, having, you know, lived and worked in the White House, having been a senator, having been Secretary of State, there has traditionally been a great pool of very talented, hard-working people.

Hillary Clinton

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• Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • House
  • Kind
  • White

• The White House tapes, the recordings that Nixon made of his conversations in office, have long been recognized as a marvel of verbal incontinence.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Long
  • House
  • White

• Senator Barack Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who I think can do great things for our country.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Great
  • Country
  • Barack Obama

• I know what’s best for the President. I put him in the White house. He does well when he listens to me and poorly when he does not.

  

  Florence Harding
  • House
  • Advice
  • President

• Discrimination and bigotry have no place in our society, and I believe Senator (Rick) Santorum's unfortunate remarks undermine Republican principles of inclusion and opportunity.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Opportunity

• I knew of Senator [George] Mitchell because he was very close friends with who was soon to be the senior senator, Paul Sarbanes. Paul Sarbanes and George Mitchell were kind of pals together.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Friends
  • Together
  • Senior

• You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

  

  Edwin Meese
  • House
  • Doubt
  • White House

• Men in power always seem to get involved in sex scandals, but women don't even have a word for 'male bimbo.' Except maybe 'senator.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?

  

  Walt Disney
  • Why
  • King
  • Governor

• I just know that I'm innovative. I'm a quick thinker... In Washington, I just want to be a senator who finds a way to drive change and not figure out a way to conform.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Washington
  • Thinker
  • Senator

• Today in Washington, D.C., several government buildings were left without power. Of course, the White House will be without power for two more years.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Power
  • Today
  • House

• Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • War
  • House
  • White House

• The White House remains willing to cooperate with the committee, as we have over the past eight months, and to provide information that is responsive to the committee's legitimate oversight and investigative concerns.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • House
  • Past
  • White House

• Which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? The White House by the script.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • House
  • Stories
  • Script

• Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • White House
  • Privileges

• Rules for a White House Spokesman: No. 1 is always tell the truth. I've got only one currency, that's the truth. There are 10,000 ways to say "no comment," and I've used 9,999 of them. The second rule is don't be afraid to say, "I don't know." You may look dumb, but if you don't know you can't give them hot air because it always shows on your face.

  

  Larry Speakes
  • Rules
  • White House
  • Spokesman

• A message to progressives: By all means, hang Senator Joe Lieberman in effigy.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Message
  • Senator
  • Joe Lieberman

• When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

  

  Scott McClellan
  • White House
  • Disillusioned
  • Misled

• Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Courage

• I'm a knitter. My projects are the ultimate in 'some assembly required.

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Projects
  • Ultimate
  • Assembly

• By now, we have learnt that game-changing ideas do not come from experts, they come from people who haven't got a clue and ask stupid questions.

  

  Chris Boardman
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Stupid

• Personally, having, you know, lived and worked in the White House, having been a senator, having been Secretary of State, there has traditionally been a great pool of very talented, hard-working people.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • White House
  • Senator
  • Secretary of state