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I had often joked in my speeches that I had imaginary conversations with Mrs. Roosevelt to solicit her advice on a range of subjects. It's actually a useful mental exercise to help analyze problems, provided you choose the right person to visualize. Eleanor Roosevelt was ideal.
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It is hard sometimes to get the Congress to do what you want to do and you have to keep working at it.
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I don't want to get into an insult fight with Donald Trump.
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We can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.
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True transformation only comes from sustainable strategies.
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Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation.
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Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.
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I wanna be a president for everyone in America. That's my goal, this what I will do, that's what I've done in my past.
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What I have proposed would be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy, because they have made all the gains in the economy.
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I've met people who were destroyed by Donald Trump.
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I feel strongly that the Supreme Court needs to stand on the side of the American people, not on the side of the powerful corporations and the wealthy.
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I can only hope that whatever image people might have of either me or Bill, they will hold in advanced until they have an opportunity to meet us.
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When families are strong, America is strong.
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The most important thing I have to say to you today is that hair matters. Pay attention to your hair, because everyone else will.
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There are many ways to be influential. You can work for politicians or in government and make a difference. And for young women who are interested in running for office, you just have to decide you're going to follow Eleanor Roosevelt's maxim about growing skin as thick as the hide of a rhinoceros, and you have to be incredibly well-prepared - better prepared [than a man], actually - and you have to figure out how you're going to present yourself, and you have to have a support group around you, because it can be really a brutal experience.
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I have stood up and I have represented my constituents to the best of my abilities, and I'm very proud of that.
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Recently in Washington, unfortunately, we have seen examples of the wrong kind of leadership -- when politicians choose scorched earth over common ground, when they operate in what I call the 'evidence-free zone,' with ideology trumping everything else.
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There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.
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No society can thrive when half its people are left behind.
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I can't stand whining. I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made. You live in a time when there are endless choices ... Money certainly helps, and having that kind of financial privilege goes a long way, but you don't even have to have money for it. But you have to work on yourself ... Do something!
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I think again we're way out of balance. We've got to rein in what has become almost an article of faith that almost anybody can have a gun anywhere at any time. And I don't believe that is in the best interest of the vast majority of people.
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I don't have any comment on who the people of Russia choose to be their leaders.
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It is important that women support each other. Most of us will at some point get married and have children, and how you balance that really depends on the quality of your friends and whether your friends are there for you. It also depends on what the policies are in your workplace.
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Wall Street can never be allowed to threaten main street again. No bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail.