Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.
Hillary Clinton
If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.
What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.
You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.
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.
You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.
You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.
It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.
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.
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
There's a difference between fair game and playing games.
Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.
I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
We are a country where people of all backgrounds, all nations of origin, all languages, all religions, all races, can make a home. America was built by immigrants.
In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.
Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest.
Women standing up for each other is critically important.
Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.
People can judge me for what I've done. And I think when somebody's out in the public eye, that's what they do. So I'm fully comfortable with who I am, what I stand for, and what I've always stood for.
I wish I were taller and thinner but the hair you can do something about.
I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.
If you believe you can make a difference, not just in politics, in public service, in advocacy around all these important issues, then you have to be prepared to accept that you are not going to get 100 percent approval.
If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to learn how to be comfortable - practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or somebody at work that you trust.
Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right.
There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.
I believe climate change is real and that we can save our planet while creating millions of good-paying clean energy jobs.
I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigration.
It's impossible to know what happens in the fog of war.
Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace - all we need is a fighting chance.
I feel very blessed to have a partner in life who supports me, who is enthusiastic about what I want to do, who has been a great father, and who will be a fabulous grandfather.
Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.
Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.
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.
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.
I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.
I don't think about a legacy; I think about my life, because I've had quite an unpredictable life.
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.
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 believe in a zone of privacy.
Let's continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.
You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.
I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
I think I'm chronically exhausted.
Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.
To me you cannot be fully human, fully civilised, unless you recognise humanity in everyone.
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 believe that eventually, one of the next big issues that will have to be addressed globally is the role of state-owned enterprises. Because there is a disadvantage that's built in.
I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.
Our country's motto is e pluribus unum: out of many, we are one. Will we stay true to that motto?
