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It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements.

You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.

I think I'm very hardheaded.

I'm going to be pitching Andy Cohen on a new show for Bravo. We can call it 'Project Pantsuit.'

Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?

I have said publicly no option should be off the table, but I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table.

Motown, Motown, that's my era. Those are my people.

We must urgently begin to rebuild the bonds of trust and respect among Americans. Restoring trust in our politics, our press, our markets.

The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.

When families are strong, America is strong.

From my perspective, you get up every day and you get out there and you make your case, and you reach as many people as possible.

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.

Several people have told me that one of the most meaningful events they could attend would be something at the White House with their children.

We're either going to be dependent on dirty oil from the Gulf or dirty oil from Canada.

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.

Hamas, we know, embeds missiles, embeds command-and-control units in civilian areas.

Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.

Never waste a good crisis.

Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.

I am not going to comment on what I did or did not say back in the late '90s.

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

When I negotiated the ceasefire in Gaza with President Morsi, he was, you know, very involved.

I meet with people all day long.

What's important here is that the Republicans agree with [Donald Trump].

We know that much of the training and the direction for terrorists comes from Pakistan and the border area with Afghanistan

You're not a leader if you haven't been elected.

Tonight, we can say with pride that, in America, there is no barrier too great and no ceiling too high to break.

[Donald Trump] attitude towards our longest defense alliance and NATO, that we should somehow walk away from it.

Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law-end of story.

Why do I have to keep proving to people that I am not a liar?!

I am a very committed person when it comes to finding common ground.

My mother implanted in me as a young girl ... you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.

One of my favorite times was sitting reading quote books, which I did for hours on end ...

It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows.

I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made.

Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.

There is no substitute for love and caring and compassion and human beings helping one another.

People have to stop employing illegal immigrants.

India has reduced its dependence on Iranian oil. I know their refineries have stopped asking for orders to purchase Iranian oil.

I helped to restore America's leadership.

You have to test your ideas in a public forum.

Small children and unruly people who are demanding attention.

When women participate in peace-making and peace-keeping, we are all safer and more secure.

[On the Chicago Cubs:] Being a Cubs fan prepares you for life - and Washington.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.

When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.

I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all.

I wish I were taller and thinner but the hair you can do something about.

I'm the most transparent secretary of state because of that. I've been willing to say, "OK, read them [emails] all."

I am repeating the facts and the facts are I did not send nor did I receive material marked classified.

Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations.

Our country's motto is e pluribus unum: out of many, we are one. Will we stay true to that motto?

We are Americans, We have the right to participate and debate any administration.

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

God bless the America we are trying to create.

Americans want to have what members of Congress have: guaranteed health coverage.

Stay in the middle,don't get pushed to the side,every chance that's worth taking,is a chance worth the fight

What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and fears from friends, allies, around the world.

I say a lot of things - millions of words a day - so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement,

Every day is a crossroads. Every day is a chance to change your life and our world for the better.

Never waste a good crisis ... Don't waste it when it can have a very positive impact on climate change and energy security.

We need to be as well prepared to defend ourselves against public health dangers as we should be to defend ourselves against any foreign danger.

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.

Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed

We now have power under the Dodd-Frank legislation to break up banks. And I've said I will use that power if they pose a systemic risk.

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.

There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.

I think from a moral issue, CEOs should not be making - whether it's 270 or 300 times more than their workers are making.

Europe is a miracle.

We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.

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

I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president.

We have gaps that are rooted in systemic racism.

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

You have Donald Trump just making outright fabrications, accusing me of something that is absolutely untrue.

Innovation, having fun and giving back, should be the core values for everyone

I still passionately support comprehensive immigration reform legislation with a path to full and equal citizenship.

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions

We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability.

Today's college student is lazy and uninformed

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

I think we have to take a look at corporate law. We have to take a look at the incentives that we can perhaps use to encourage more longer term.

It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back.

You know, my view is that we have a big world out there.

The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better than the private sector will spend it.

I believe, and that is that I am the strongest candidate to take it to the Republicans and win in November [2016].

You Don't Have to Be Perfect. Most Men Never Think Like That.

Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

I think we've got to understand the complexity of the world that we are facing and no place is more so than in the Middle East.

No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so.

You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?

I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.

I think a revolution transitioning from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy - somebody's going to be the 21st-century clean-energy superpower.