Quotes from Hillary Clinton

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 have said that I'm not running and I'm having a great time being pres — being a first-term senator.

There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.

Women offer unique contributions to making and keeping peace - and that those contributions lead to better outcomes not just for women, but for entire societies.

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

I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

I have a lot of stamina and I have a lot of resilience.

We are still living with a double standard. I know it. Every woman I know knows it, whether you're in the media as a woman, or you're in the professions or business or politics.

Now there is a new request. To release transcripts of speeches that were given. When everybody agrees to do that, I will as well. It is important we all abide by the same standards. So let's do the tax return standard first, because that has been the standard for a long time.

Women standing up for each other is critically important.

Everybody feels they have been trespassed upon, and nearly everybody has trespassed on somebody else, maybe not intentionally.

My father was a small-businessman, and if he didn't get up and go to work, there would be no business.

Tonight, tonight we've reached a milestone in our nation's march toward a more perfect union: the first time that a major party has nominated a woman for president. Standing here, standing here as my mother's daughter, and my daughter's mother, I'm so happy this day has come.

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

I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.

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

Investing in women is not only the right thing to do, but also the smart thing to do.

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

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.

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

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.

Costs are incurred whenever any group is treated as lesser or the other, whether they are women, racial, or religious minorities, or the LGBT.