Hillary Clinton Quotes
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Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven.
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The first years of life are not just important; they are more crucial to shaping children than any other time. Even before they speak, children are extremely sensitive to the messages adults send them.
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I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, as well as a child.
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You know, we've been married for 22 years ... and I have learned a long time ago that the only people who count in any marriage are the two that are in it.
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There is no question in my mind that if we summon our resources, both our leadership resources and all of the tools at our disposal, not just military force, which should be used as a last resort, but our diplomacy, our development aid, law enforcement, sharing of intelligence in a much more open and cooperative way. We can bring people together, but it cannot be an American fight.
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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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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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I think if you had a capital-gains system where the long, patient capital would actually be rewarded, nanosecond capital turning would not be.
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I will take a backseat to no one in keeping America safe. I have a very clear set of proposals about how we defeat ISIS.
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I have no plans to say or do anything about The Clinton Foundation other than to say how proud I am of it and that I think for the good of the world, its work should continue.
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Donald Trump's negative enough, I don't need to add to that.
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Let's prove that the American dream is big enough for everyone to share in its promise.
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My father loved to complain about big business and big government, but we had a solid middle class upbringing. We had good public schools. We had accessible health care. We had our little, you know, one-family house that, you know, he saved up his money, didn't believe in mortgages.
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We finally are where we need to be. We have a strategy and a commitment to go after ISIS.
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Today, there's more that can and should be done that really has to come from the industry itself, and how we can strengthen our economy, create more jobs at a time where that's increasingly challenging, to get back to Teddy Roosevelt's square deal. And I really believe that America and all of you are up to that job.
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You're not a leader if you haven't been elected.
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When you inherit the level of economic catastrophe that President Obama inherited, it was a real touch-and-go situation.
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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 have met with women who toward the end of their pregnancy get the worst news one could get, that their health is in jeopardy if they continue to carry to term or that something terrible has happened or just been discovered about the pregnancy. I do not think the United States government should be stepping in and making those most personal of decisions. So you can regulate if you are doing so with the life and the health of the mother taken into account.
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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.
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You're not always going to make the right decisions, but you have to be guided by what you think is important.
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My friends, Israel's security is non-negotiable.
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Donald Trump has shown us who he is. And we ought to believe him. He is taking a hate movement mainstream.
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I think if you come from where I came from and where I have always been, I've always been reaching out and whether it's talking with our neighbors or going shopping or standing, talking to people in these bookstores and hearing what's on their minds, or even the work I did for eight years as a senator to bring new jobs to New York and stand up for the people I represented.