Hillary Clinton Quotes

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Don't let anybody tell you that it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.

Hillary Clinton
We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office.

Hillary Clinton
So I made a mistake. That happens. It proves I'm human, which you know, for some people, is a revelation.... I was also told that the greeting ceremony had been moved away from the tarmac but that there was this eight-year-old girl and I said, 'Well, I, I can't, I can't rush by her, I've got to at least greet her.' So I greeted her, I took her stuff and I left. Now that's my memory of it.

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Women who want to work deserve to work. And whenever they are denied that opportunity, it's not fair to them – and we all lose out. In a competitive 21st century global economy, we cannot afford to leave talent on the sidelines. When we leave people out or write them off, we not only shortchange them and their dreams, we shortchange our country and our own futures.

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Don't let anyone tell you that our country is weak. We're not. Don't let anyone tell you we don't have what it takes. We do. And most of all, don't believe anyone who says: I alone can fix it.

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They are often the kinds of kids that are called 'super-predators.' No conscience, no empathy, we can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel.
About a 1996 statement

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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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Among the most striking things that I have learned is how much we have in common. I've sat down with people everywhere, discussing what was in their hearts and on their minds. And it doesn't take long to find commonality, which is often overlooked, ignored, dismissed, and rejected otherwise.

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Let's dispel with this fiction that @POTUS (The President of the United States) doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing.

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America's strength doesn't come from lashing out. Strength relies on smarts, judgment, cool resolve, and the precise and strategic application of power.

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I can tell you that I may be a lot of things but I am not dumb. And I wrote about going to Bosnia in my book in 2004, I laid it all out there. And you're right, on a couple of occasions in the last weeks I just said some things that weren't in keeping with what I knew to be the case and what I had written about in my book. And you know, I'm embarrassed by it. I'm very sorry I said it. I have said that, you know, it just didn't jive with what I had written about and knew to be the truth. So I know that it is something that some people have said, Wait a minute. What happened here? But I have talked about this and written about it and then, unfortunately, in a few occasions I was not as accurate as I have been in the past.

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We are not going to sit idly by and permit state actors to go after our information, our private-sector information or our public-sector information.

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I hope the fact-checkers are turning up the volume and really working hard. Donald supported the invasion of Iraq.

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I don't have all the answers. I don't know anyone who does. But this is certain: too many people have lost their lives who shouldn't have.

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Islam itself is not our adversary. Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism. The obsession in some quarters with a "clash of civilizations" or repeating the specific words "radical Islamic terrorism" is not just a distraction, it gives these criminals, these murderers, more standing than they deserve and it actually plays into their hands by alienating partners we need by our side.

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I believe that in America, if you can dream it, you should be able to build it.

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I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

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Once and for all, the Saudis, the Qataris, and others need to stop their citizens from directly funding extremist organizations, as well as schools and mosques around the world that have set too many young people on a path toward radicalization. When it comes to blocking terrorist recruitment, we have to identify the hotspots—the specific neighborhoods and villages, the prisons and schools—where recruitment happens in clusters.

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We have to use all of America's strengths to build a world with more partners and fewer adversaries, more shared responsibility and fewer conflicts, more good jobs and less poverty, more broadly based prosperity with less damage to our environment.

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My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders.

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You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.

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I sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.

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Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia. He's taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over one of America's two major political parties. His disregard for the values that make our country great is profoundly dangerous. In just the past week, under the guise of "outreach" to African Americans, Trump has stood up in front of largely white audiences and described black communities in insulting and ignorant terms.

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Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are often the refugees from conflict and sometimes, more frequently in today's warfare, victims. Women are often left with the responsibility, alone, of raising the children.

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There are different views about what's good for our country, our economy, and our leadership in the world. And I think it's important to look at what we need to do to get the economy going again.

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Asylum is a particular legal process. I'd like to see it changed. I'd like to see us give more support to people who come fleeing the terrible violence that they do. But under our law, we have a process we have to go through which is different.... The undocumented people living in our country, I do not want to see them deported. I want to see them on a path to citizenship.

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As president, I will take steps to ban the box, so former presidents won't have to declare their criminal history at the very start of the hiring process.

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As love and joy flood our streets today, it is hard to imagine how anyone could deny the full protection of our laws to any of our fellow Americans — but there are those who would.

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It did take a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, and I think it might take another one to clean up after the second Bush.

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If you work hard, you do your part, you should be able to give your children all the opportunities they deserve. That is the basic bargain of America.

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