Quotes from Hillary Clinton

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

I'm not running my campaign for the press. I'm running it for voters. I totally respect the press and what the press has to do.

I think we're all safer when the police respect the communities they're supposed to serve, and the communities respect the law.

I was involved in a number of efforts to take out Al Qaida leadership when I was secretary of state, including, of course, taking out [Usama] bin Laden.

It really is a choice between division or unity, between an economy that works for everyone or one that is stacked for those at the top, between strong, steady leadership or a loose cannon.

American leadership is essential.

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

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

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.

Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

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.

Americans deserve to feel secure in their own lives, in their own middle-class aspirations, before you go to them and say, 'We're going to have to enforce navigable sea lanes in the South China Sea.'

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.

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

And I will repeat today what I have said throughout this campaign. I will not raise taxes on the middle class. I will give you tax relief to help ease these burdens.

I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.

I think science is real. And I think it's important that we grip this and deal with it, both at home and abroad.

I think science is real.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

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.

You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life