I've spent so many years commuting, I kind of prefer a home office.
— Hillary Clinton
Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.
If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk.
I've been in the hospital once when I had my daughter, and, oh, when I broke my elbow, but other than that, I've been very fortunate.
Israel has a right to defend itself.
This is what we call smart power. Using every possible tool and partner to advance peace and security. Leaving no one on the sidelines. Showing respect even for one's enemies. Trying to understand, in so far as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view. Helping to define the problems, determine the solutions.
Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses create jobs. You know that old theory, 'trickle-down economics.' That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly.
I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.
In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.
I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President.
I don't think I've read any of the books that have been written about me.
Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?
You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.
Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they?
I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.
You can go into neighborhoods in the United States where people dress a certain way because they don't want to be out of touch, where boys wear pants down to their knees, which nobody has compelled them to do but they pick up the cultural norms, or where girls are improperly dressed by my eyes, but that's what they see in the media.
It's true that America can't solve every problem, but I don't know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us.
I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company, as so many people who leave public life do.
My favorite short stories are by Alice Munro, especially her collections 'Carried Away' and 'Runaway.'
Look at climate change; don't put your head in the sand. Understand that it is going to have profound effects on our resources and so much else.
I have been working or attending school full time since I was 13.
When you're down on yourself, and when you are hunkering down and pulling back, you're not going to make any better decisions than when you were aggressively, belligerently putting yourself forward.
We're always going to argue about abortion. It's a hard choice and it's controversial, and that's why I'm pro-choice, because I want people to make their own choices.
People have to stop employing illegal immigrants.
I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.
You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that's bad for everybody.
I never thought I would end up being the Senator from New York.
Look, I'm outspoken.
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.
Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.
Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.
I think I'm very hardheaded.
I'll get involved in philanthropy.
There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.
When I traveled as secretary of state, I was deluged with thick briefing books full of information about the politics, economy, and culture of each destination, so those took up most of my reading time.
I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen and Alice Walker.
I believe in transparency.
It's impossible to know what happens in the fog of war.
Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.
You know, one of the things my husband says when people say 'Well, what did you bring to Washington,' he said, 'Well, I brought arithmetic.'
I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigration.
There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.
The people of New York took a big chance on me. And I'm well aware of that.
You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?
I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.
I have to defend my husband.
A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.
India has reduced its dependence on Iranian oil. I know their refineries have stopped asking for orders to purchase Iranian oil.
China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world, Russia is, Al Jazeera. And the BBC is cutting back on its many language services around the world.
I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.
