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“We need to understand that there is no formula for how women should lead their lives. that is why we must respect the choices that each woman makes for herself and her family. Every woman deserves the chance to realize her God-given potential.”
— Hillary Clinton, It Takes a Village, Tenth Anniversary Edition
Tagged: feminism, Women, Choices, Life, Happiness, Potential, Hillary Clinton
“Scripture tells us, let us not grow weary of doing good, for in good season we shall reap. My friends, let us have faith in each other, let us not grow weary and lose heart, for there are more seasons to come and there is more work to do.”
— Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton concession speech
Tagged: Election 2016
“From the start, 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.”
— Hillary Clinton, Transcript: Hillary Clinton's full remarks in Reno, Nevada
Tagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“We cannot let Barack Obama’s legacy fall into Donald Trump’s hands. We can’t let all the hard work and progress we have achieved over the last seven and a half years be torn away. We have to move forward together. We have to bring our country together.”
— Hillary Clinton, Trump will be the Republican nominee. Only one candidate can stop him.
Tagged: Election 2016, Hillary vs. Trump, Barack Obama
“Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I’m well aware of, but that’s just part of coming to grips with what I believe is still one of the most important pieces of unfinished business in human history—empowering women to be able to stand up for themselves.”
— Hillary Clinton, Hillary Talks Sexism, Obama's Job Offer, and Mad Men to Vogue
Tagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Challenging Assumptions, Uncomfortable, Business, Human History, Empowering, Power, Leadership
“To break the gridlock in Washington, we need to get secret, unaccountable money out of our politics. It’s drowning out the voices of the American people. So within my first 30 days, I will introduce a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. We should be protecting citizens’ rights to vote, not corporations’ rights to buy elections.”
— Hillary Clinton, Exclusive Clinton op-ed: I'll look for common ground
Tagged: Election 2016, Hillary Clinton
“I think Donald Trump has said he’s qualified to be President because of his business record. A few days ago, he said, and I quote, ‘I’m going to do for the country what I did for my business.’ So let’s take a look at what he did for his business.

He’s written a lot of books about business — they all seem to end at Chapter 11. Go figure.”
— Hillary Clinton, We can’t let Donald Trump bankrupt America like one of his failed casinos.
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, 2016 Election, 2016 Election Jokes
“For now, let’s focus on what we already know — deep in our hearts. We know there is something wrong with our country. There is too much violence, too much hate, too much senseless killing, too many people dead who shouldn’t be. And we know there is clear evidence that African Americans are much more likely to be killed in police incidents than any other group of Americans.”
— Hillary Clinton, We owe our children better than this. We owe ourselves better than this. — Hillary for America
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, 2016 Election, Guns, Race, Police
“The man who today is the standard bearer of the Republican Party said a federal judge was incapable of doing his job solely because of his heritage.

Even the Republican Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, described that as ‘the textbook definition of a racist comment.’

To this day, he’s never apologized to Judge Curiel.”
— Hillary Clinton, Transcript: Hillary Clinton's full remarks in Reno, Nevada
Tagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“We haven’t done enough to invest in our communities and in our people, to make sure there are enough good jobs with rising incomes to create that good future for all of us.

The answer is to do that — to bring them along on America’s ride to a prosperity that we all can share. Not try to turn the clock back, pretend we can’t compete and decrease the jobs of the future.”
— Hillary Clinton, We can’t let Donald Trump bankrupt America like one of his failed casinos.
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, Economy, 2016 Election
“And beyond that — this election will say something about who we are as a people. Donald Trump believes in the worst of us. He thinks we’re fearful, not confident. That we favor division, not unity; walls, not bridges; and yesterday, not tomorrow. He thinks the only way forward is to go back to a past prosperity that left a lot of people out.”
— Hillary Clinton, We can’t let Donald Trump bankrupt America like one of his failed casinos.
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, 2016 Election, Immigration, Diversity
“I want you to know the 24-hour news cycle moves on — I won’t. This is so important to who we are, what kind of nation we are making for our children and our grandchildren. As President Obama said yesterday, and as we all know in our hearts to be true: We are better than this. And if we push hard enough, and long enough, we can bend the arc of history toward justice.”
— Hillary Clinton, We owe our children better than this. We owe ourselves better than this. — Hillary for America
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, 2016 Election, Guns, Violence
“I want to be a president for all Americans. I think the American dream is big enough for everybody. And I am honored to have support, not just from Democrats, but from independents and Republicans, because we’ve got to pull this country together if we’re going to move into the future together, creating what we need for ourselves and our children.”
— Hillary Clinton, Transcript of Hillary Clinton’s speech at Ohio State
Tagged: Election 2016, Hillary Clinton
“There’s so much more we need to do together, and we certainly won’t get it all done in the first 100 days. But we’re going to roll up our sleeves and get to work for American families — and I’ll never, ever quit.

I want to be president for all Americans — Democrats, Republicans and independents; Americans of every race, faith and background.”
— Hillary Clinton, Exclusive Clinton op-ed: I'll look for common ground
Tagged: Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, Immigration
“In my first 100 days, we will work with both parties to pass the biggest investment in new, good-paying jobs since World War II.
Jobs in manufacturing, clean energy, technology and innovation, small business, and infrastructure. If we invest in infrastructure now, we'll not only create jobs today, but lay the foundation for the jobs of the future.”
— Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton's DNC speech: full text
Tagged: Infrastructure, Election 2016, Jobs, DNC 2016
“In the heat of a campaign, in a culture that rewards brevity and clever phrases on social media, it is tempting to give simple answers to complex problems. Believe me, I have been tempted. But I’m not going to do that because it really matters that you know what I believe we can and should do so you can hold me accountable, in the election and then in the White House.”
— Hillary Clinton, We can’t let Donald Trump bankrupt America like one of his failed casinos.
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, 2016 Election
“Brave police officers are working hard every day to inspire trust and confidence. As we mourn the Dallas police officers who died and pray for those wounded, let’s not forget how the Dallas Police Department in particular has earned a reputation for excellence. They’ve worked hard for years to improve policing and strengthen their bonds with the community. And they’ve gotten results.”
— Hillary Clinton, We owe our children better than this. We owe ourselves better than this. — Hillary for America
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, 2016 Election, Police
“In times of crisis, our country depends on steady leadership… clear thinking… and calm judgment… because one wrong move can mean the difference between life and death.
The last thing we need in the Situation Room is a loose cannon who can’t tell the difference between fact and fiction, and who buys so easily into racially-tinged rumors.”
— Hillary Clinton, Transcript: Hillary Clinton's full remarks in Reno, Nevada
Tagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“I know that, just by saying all these things together, I may upset some people. I’m talking about criminal justice reform the day after a horrific attack on police officers. I’m talking about courageous, honorable police officers just a few days after officer-involved killings in Louisiana and Minnesota. I’m bringing up guns in a country where merely talking about comprehensive background checks and getting assault weapons off our streets gets you demonized.

But all these things can be true at once.”
— Hillary Clinton, We owe our children better than this. We owe ourselves better than this. — Hillary for America
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, 2016 Election, Guns, Police, criminal justice
“We’ve got to liberate the American consumer by protecting and helping the American worker. And we’re going to make more things in America. We’re going to ensure we have the most competitive auto and auto parts industries in the world. And when we invest in infrastructure, we’re not just going to be investing in roads and bridges and tunnels and ports and transit and water systems; we’re going to connect every home to high-speed broadband so they can get into the global marketplace.”
— Hillary Clinton, Transcript of remarks of Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren in Cincinnati, OH
Tagged: American Economics In 2016, Invest In Automobiles, Build Connection Through Economy, Election 2016, Invest in American People
“Wall Street, corporations, and the super-rich are going to start paying their fair share of taxes. Not because we resent success. Because when more than 90% of the gains have gone to the top 1%, that's where the money is. And if companies take tax breaks and then ship jobs overseas, we'll make them pay us back. And we'll put that money to work where it belongs ... creating jobs here at home!”
— Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton's DNC speech: full text
Tagged: Rhetoric of The Same, Against Special Interests, America First
“Of course there’s always been a paranoid fringe in our politics, steeped in racial resentment. But it’s never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it a national megaphone. Until now.

On David Duke’s radio show the other day, the mood was jubilant. ‘We appear to have taken over the Republican Party,’ one white supremacist said.

Duke laughed. There’s still more work to do, he said.”
— Hillary Clinton, Transcript: Hillary Clinton's full remarks in Reno, Nevada
Tagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“Twenty years ago, when Bob Dole accepted the Republican nomination, he pointed to the exits and told any racists in the Party to get out.

The week after 9/11, George W. Bush went to a mosque and declared for everyone to hear that Muslims ‘love America just as much as I do.’

In 2008, John McCain told his own supporters they were wrong about the man he was trying to defeat. Senator McCain made sure they knew – Barack Obama is an American citizen and ‘a decent person.’

We need that kind of leadership again.”
— Hillary Clinton, Transcript: Hillary Clinton's full remarks in Reno, Nevada
Tagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Bob Dole, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, John McCain
“And please, never forget America is great because America is good, and if we deviate, if we deviate from our fundamental values – and that’s indeed the kind of campaign my opponent has run.

He has said he would order our men and women in uniform to commit war crimes. He has said he would impose a religious test on who could come into our country – a nation founded on religious freedom and liberty. This is turning the clock back, not just a few years, but centuries. The only way to rebuke this is to vote. Use the single most important, fundamental right you have as citizens of America.”
— Hillary Clinton, Transcript of Hillary Clinton’s speech at Ohio State
Tagged: Election 2016, Hillary Clinton
“I got into this work so many years ago. I went to work for the Children's Defense Fund right out of law school. I spent my time trying to figure out how to even the odds for all kids. And the reason I did that was because of my own mother.

I didn't know it when I was just a little girl, but I learned as I got older that my mother was abandoned and neglected by her parents, and pretty much left on her own, then, at the age of 8, holding her three-year-old sister's hand she was put on a train by themselves to live with grandparents. And it turned out, the grandparents didn't really want her either and so by the age of 14, she was working in a house as a maid and a babysitter.

But here's what I want you to know. It sounds pretty harsh, it was difficult, but it made a profound impression on her life. I think my mom who lived to the wonderful age of 92, and I don't think a day went by that she didn't think of being abandoned and being sent away and pretty much left on her own.

But, along the way people were kind to her. People helped her. The first grade teacher who brought lunch for her every day because my mom never had any. The woman whose house she went to work in all those years ago knew my mother wanted to go to high school so she said to her, 'Dorothy, I know you want to go to high school. If you get up early and get all your chores done, you can go to high school. Now you'll have to come right back home.'

That might sound kind of unfortunate, but for my mom it was a gift, because she really wanted to go to high school. So my mother always cared about other people, and she taught me in every way she could that nobody, nobody is better than anybody else. And we need to show each other more kindness and support, and the last thing we need in our country is more bullies making people feel bad about themselves and pushing people away.

We should be drawing people toward us, creating the kind of future we want for all of our children. That's what I think about if I am so fortunate to become President. I think about waking up in the White House every morning trying to figure out what I can do to help someone else.”
— Hillary Clinton, LIVE: Hillary in Pueblo, Colorado
Tagged: Election 2016, Hillary Clinton
“Our campaign was never about one person, or even one election. It was about the country we love and building an America that is hopeful, inclusive, and big-hearted. We have seen that our nation is more deeply divided than we thought. But I still believe in America, and I always will. And if you do, then we must accept this result and then look to the future. Donald Trump is going to be our president. We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead.”
— Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton concession speech
Tagged: Election 2016, Politics
“Foreign policy experts often refer to the system of institutions, alliances, and norms built up after World War II as “architecture.” We still needed a rules-based global order that could manage interactions between states, protect fundamental freedoms, and mobilize common action. But it would have to be more flexible and inclusive than before. I came to liken the old architecture to the Parthenon in Greece, with clean lines and clear rules. The pillars holding it up— a handful of big institutions, alliances, and treaties— were remarkably sturdy. But time takes its toll, even on the greatest of edifices, and now we needed a new architecture for a new world, more in the spirit of Frank Gehry than formal Greek classicism. Where once a few strong columns could hold up the weight of the world, now a dynamic mix of materials, shapes, and structures was needed.”
— Hillary Clinton, Hard Choices
Tagged: Architecture, Baroque, Flexibility, Politcs
“Now, I know there are a lot of businesses thriving here at North Carolina and across our country who see employees as assets to invest in, not costs to cut. They’re building companies, not stripping them. They’re creating good jobs, not eliminating them. But too many — too many businesses take the opposite view. Now, I am not asking corporations to be more charitable, although I think that is important. I’m asking corporations to realize that when more Americans prosper, they prosper, too. Right?”
— Hillary Clinton, Read Hillary Clinton's Speech Attacking Donald Trump's Economic Policies
Tagged: Offshoring, U.S Economy in 2016
“But today, I want to talk about what Donald Trump is promising to do to the economy. After more than a year, it’s important that he be held accountable for what he says he’ll do as President. And we need to clear the way for a real conversation about how to improve the lives of working people.

A few weeks ago, I said his foreign policy proposals and reckless statements represent a danger to our national security. But you might think that because he has spent his life as a businessman, he’d be better prepared to handle the economy. Well it turns out, he’s dangerous there, too.


Just like he shouldn’t have his finger on the button, he shouldn’t have his hands on our economy.”
— Hillary Clinton, We can’t let Donald Trump bankrupt America like one of his failed casinos.
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, 2016 Election, Economy, National Security
“After the 2008 crisis, President Obama fought to enact the toughest, most comprehensive set of Wall Street reforms since the Great Depression. They’re designed to protect consumers and ensure that Wall Street can never again take the kinds of risks that crashed our economy the last time.

So what would Trump do? He said he wants to wipe out the tough rules we put on big banks. He said they created — quote — ‘a very bad situation.’ Well he’s got it backwards. The ‘very bad situation’ was millions of families seeing their homes and savings disappear.”
— Hillary Clinton, We can’t let Donald Trump bankrupt America like one of his failed casinos.
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Wall Street, 2016 Election
“The U.S.-China relationship is still full of challenges. We are two large, complex nations with profoundly different histories, political systems, and outlooks, whose economies and futures have become deeply entwined. This isn't a relationship that fits neatly into categories like friend or rival, and it may never. We are sailing in uncharted waters. Staying on course and avoiding the shoals and whirlpools requires both a true compass and the flexibility to make frequent course corrections, including sometimes painful trade-offs. If we push too hard on one front, we may jeopardize another. By the same token, if we are too quick to compromise or accommodate, we may invite aggression. With all these elements to consider, it can be easy to lose sight of the fact that, across the divide, our counterparts have their own pressures and imperatives.”
— Hillary Clinton, Hard Choices
Tagged: China
“I honestly believe that the difference between us is not just about policy. We have fundamentally different views of whether America is strong or weak. See I believe in the ingenuity and productivity of our workers. I know we can sell our products to the 95 percent of global consumers who live outside of our country. 

On the other hand, Donald Trump never misses a chance to say that Americans, he’s talking about us, to say that Americans are losers and the rest of the world is laughing at us.”
— Hillary Clinton, We can’t let Donald Trump bankrupt America like one of his failed casinos.
Tagged: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, 2016 Election, United States, Economy
“Our priority should be how to fight the enemy. In the end, it didn’t matter what kind of terrorist we call bin Laden, it mattered that we killed bin Laden. But we still can’t close our eyes to the fact that there is a distorted and dangerous stream of extremism within the Muslim world that continues to spread. Its adherents are relatively few in number, but capable of causing profound damage, most especially to their own communities throughout an arc of instability that stretches from North and West Africa to Asia.

Overlapping conflicts, collapsing state structures, widespread corruption, poverty and repression have created openings for extremists to exploit.”
— Hillary Clinton, Read Hillary Clinton's Speech on Fighting
Tagged: ISIS, Extremism, Middle East
“When Trump was getting his start in business, he was sued by the Justice Department for refusing to rent apartments to black and Latino tenants.

Their applications would be marked with a ‘C’ – ‘C’ for ‘colored’ – and then rejected.

Three years later, the Justice Department took Trump back to court because he hadn’t changed.

The pattern continued through the decades.”
— Hillary Clinton, Transcript: Hillary Clinton's full remarks in Reno, Nevada
Tagged: 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
“Well, that is not what happens in these cases. And using that kind of scare rhetoric is just terribly unfortunate. You should meet with some of the women that I’ve met with. Women I’ve known over the course of my life.

This is one of the worst possible choices that any woman and her family has to make. I do not believe the government should be in it. I’ve been to countries where governments forced women to have abortions like they did in China, or force women to bear children like they used to do in Romania. I can tell you the government has no business in the decisions that women make with their families in accordance with their faith, with medical advice, and I will stand up for that right.”
— Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton responds to Donald Trump's graphic condemnation of abortions
Tagged: Election 2016, Debate, Hillary Clinton, Donald J. Trump, Presidential Debate
“You know, back in the 1970s, I worked for Children’s Defense Fund, and I was taking on discrimination against African-American kids in schools. He was getting sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination in his apartment buildings.

In the 1980s, I was working to reform the schools in Arkansas. He was bore rogue $14 million from his father to start his businesses. In the 1990s, I went to Beijing and I said women’s rights are human rights. He insulted a former miss universe, Alicia Machado, called her an eating machine.

And on the day when I was in the situation room, monitoring the raid that brought Osama bin Laden to justice, he was host "The Celebrity Apprentice.”
— Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton compares her experience with that of Donald Trump
Tagged: Election 2016, Debate, Hillary Clinton, Donald J. Trump, Presidential Debate
“Yes, [Trump] has insulted and demeaned women; we’ve seen it over and over again. But he has targeted others as well. He’s disrespected and denigrated African Americans and Latinos, Muslims and POWs, people with disabilities and immigrants. He is an equal-opportunity insulter if there ever was one.

That is not what we are in America. And it may be who he is, but this election is our chance to show who we are. We are better than that. We are bigger than that. And I want to send a message to every boy and girl, every man and woman in our country, indeed, to the entire world, that that is not who America is.”
— Hillary Clinton, Transcript of Hillary Clinton’s speech at Ohio State
Tagged: Election 2016, Hillary Clinton
“You know what’s at stake, but you also know what you believe. And you don’t want someone who says that he’s going to appoint Supreme Court justices who will reverse marriage equality; who will – who will keep Citizens United, one of the worst decisions ever made, that allowed dark, unaccountable money in our electoral system; that will reverse a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions; who will defund Planned Parenthood. You know better than that.

You are helping us move toward a more perfect union. That has been the story of America at our best. We keep widening the circle of opportunity and inviting more people in. If you’re willing to do your part, you’re willing to make your contribution, there is a place for you in this nation of ours.”
— Hillary Clinton, Transcript of Hillary Clinton’s speech at Ohio State
Tagged: Election 2016, Hillary Clinton
“In January, America is going to have a new president. Things are going to change — that much is certain. The question is, what kind of change are we going to have?

We can build an economy that works for everyone, or stack the deck even more for those at the top.

We can keep America safe through strength and smarts — or turn our backs on our allies, and cozy up to our adversaries.

We can come together to build a stronger, fairer America, or fear the future and fear each other.”
— Hillary Clinton, Exclusive Clinton op-ed: I'll look for common ground
Tagged: Election 2016, Hillary Clinton
“The last president to sign comprehensive immigration reform was Ronald Reagan, and it was a priority for George W. Bush. I’m confident that we can work across the aisle to pass comprehensive reform that keeps families together and creates a path to citizenship, secures our border, and focuses our enforcement resources on violent criminals.

This is the right thing to do, and it will also grow our economy.”
— Hillary Clinton, Exclusive Clinton op-ed: I'll look for common ground
Tagged: Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, Immigration
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