Hillary Clinton Quotes

The Congress is not willing to think about the long term. They act like activist shareholders, to use that phrase again. They're not thinking about what can we do that will make us richer, safer, and stronger next year, and the year after, and five and 10 years out.

Hillary Clinton

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• I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Thought

• I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Change
  • Stress
  • Meaning

• I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Attention
  • Talk

• I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.

  

  Patrick Roy
  • Want
  • Team
  • Interest

• I never imagined what it would be like to spend a 12-hour day crying and covered in blood.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Day
  • Never
  • Blood

• The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • World
  • Bad
  • Know

• When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me learn to play with them, which I think is the most important thing that I learned.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Important
  • Learn
  • Win

• The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazingly socially cruel. I had never experienced that in America - never in school, nowhere.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • World
  • School
  • America

• I come from a mother who can cry at a G.E. commercial.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Mother
  • G.E.

• The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Spiritual
  • Path

• I believe in working hard all the time. I have faith that working hard is going to get me where I want to go.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Faith

• The (House) managers spent much of their time last week explaining to you why, if only witnesses could be called, you would be able to resolve all of the supposed conflicts in the evidence.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Time
  • Why
  • House

• Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

  

  Charles William Eliot
  • Friends
  • Books
  • Constant

• That's what the general gives me. That's what our budget can withstand.

  

  Bert Williams
  • Budget
  • Gives
  • Withstand

• I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Past
  • Teacher
  • Challenges

• Health care is, at its core, about improving the odds of life in its struggle against death. Of extending that game which we will all lose, each and every one of us unto eternity, extending it another year or month or second.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Life
  • Game
  • Death

• In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f*.

  

  Jean Philippe Rameau
  • Contained
  • Sonority
  • Overtones

• Getting our affected Gulf Coast states the aid they need to help victims and rebuild communities continues to be our highest priority. Today's passage is the second aid package in recent days, and it illustrates one thing: this Congress is serious about doing everything we can to help local, state and federal officials respond to this crisis.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Help
  • Today
  • Serious

• When the ACLU took my case and we got a ruling I think, for the first time, they could - the Congress could put out the report internally but they couldn't put it out at taxpayers' expense around the country. And I felt odd about that because I, in a way, I was interfering with free speech, but then, you can't always win.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Win
  • Congress
  • Report

• Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call on Congress to enact.

  

  Richard Mentor Johnson
  • Religion
  • Influence
  • Congress

• If bribery is good enough for Congress, it's good enough for me.

  

  Eddie Griffin
  • Good
  • Congress
  • Bribery

• The Congress is not willing to think about the long term. They act like activist shareholders, to use that phrase again. They're not thinking about what can we do that will make us richer, safer, and stronger next year, and the year after, and five and 10 years out.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Congress
  • Activist shareholders