Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.
— Hillary Clinton
I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.
It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.
We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, 'Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is.
Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.
I've always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there.
My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.
If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.
Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.
Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.
Dynamism is a function of change.
I also believe that we have an extraordinary opportunity for the United States and European Union to lead the world in developing and implementing new and more efficient technologies - smart electrical grids and electrical vehicles.
The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.
I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.
Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.
You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.
We'll hold out our hand; they have to unclench their fist.
It should never be a crime to be gay.
There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.
Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.
Showing up is not all of life - but it counts for a lot.
We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally.
I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.
Let's continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.
Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.
Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.
You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.
We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.
I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it.
I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations.
I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position.
There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
We have a close, unshakable bond between the United States and Israel, and between the American and Israeli people. We share common values and a commitment to a democratic future for the world, and we are both committed to a two-state solution. But that doesn't mean that we're going to agree.
All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.
Gay rights are human rights.
There's a certain consistency to who I am and what I do, and I think people have finally said, 'Well, you know, I kinda get her now.' I've actually had people say that to me.
No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.
There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.
When a new president comes in, a new president gets to clean house.
The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.
I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.
I sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.
On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.
We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.
In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.
Every president, if you watch what they look like when they come into office, you can see their hair turn white because it's such a hard job.
Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have.
As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.
Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.
