Hillary Clinton Quotes About Running

• Words matter when you run for president. And they really matter when you are president.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, President, Matter

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

• 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.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Jobs, Communication

  Presser on Wikileaks Release of Confidential Documents, delivered 29 November 2010, Treaty Room, Washington, D.C.

• Equal pay is not yet equal. A woman makes $0.77 on a dollar and women of color make $0.67... We feel so passionately about this because we are not only running for office, but we each, in our own way, have lived it. We have seen it. We have understood the pain and the injustice that has come because of race, because of gender. And it's imperative that... we make it very clear that each of us will address these issues.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Pain, Issues

  Hillary Clinton's remarks at the Democratic presidential debate sponsored by CNN and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute, edition.cnn.com. January 21, 2008.

• Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Husband, Shoes

• I have absolutely no interest in running for president again. None. None. I mean, I know that's hard for some people to believe, but, you know, I just don't.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Believe, Mean

• America can't succeed unless you succeed. That is why I am running for president of the United States.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, America, President

  "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. June 14, 2015.

• We've got to reach out to Muslim countries.We've got to have them be part of our coalition. If they hear people running for president who basically shortcut it to say we are somehow against Islam, that was one of the real contributions, despite all the other problems, that George W. Bush made after 9/11 when he basically said after going to a Mosque in Washington, we are not at war with Islam or Muslims.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Country, Real

  Source: time.com

• I've always thought that the role of citizen, the role of advocate, were as important in our democracy as running for office.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Office, Democracy

  "'Goldwater Girl': Putting Context To A Resurfaced Hillary Clinton Interview". Interview with Scott Simon, kmuw.org. March 26, 2016.

• Now, I will say, most American companies - most are run by honorable patriotic people who care about their employees and communities. But there are still too many powerful interests fighting to protect their own profits and privileges at the expense of everyone else.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Powerful, Patriotic

  Source: time.com

• It wasn't until 1998 that I ever seriously thought about running for office. And I didn't make up my mind to do that until 1999, and then I ran for the Senate. It was really hard for me.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Office, Mind

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• Hillary Clinton is a very dishonest person, probably the most dishonest person ever to run for the office of president.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Office, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• I don't believe that people vote for President based on spouses. I don't even think they vote much based on vice presidents or any other factor. I think they choose between the two people who are running.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Believe, Thinking

• I'm not running for some Americans but for all Americans.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service. And for the last 17 years, ever since my husband started running for president, I have been in the spotlight, working hard. And this job is incredibly all-encompassing. So I think I'm looking forward to maybe taking some time off

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Jobs, Husband

• You have to be a little bit crazy to run for president.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Crazy, President

• Running for office in our country takes a lot of money, and candidates have to go out and raise it. New York is probably the leading site for contributions for fundraising for candidates on both sides of the aisle, and it's also our economic center. And there are a lot of people here who should ask some tough questions before handing over campaign contributions to people who were really playing chicken with our whole economy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Country, New York

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• If we're going to be an effective, efficient economy, we need to have all part of that engine running well, and that includes Wall Street and Main Street.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Wall, Needs

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I take running for president and being president really seriously. It's a - maybe the toughest job in the world, right? And I knew that there was unfinished business from the successful two terms of President Obama, whom I had served, but that we needed to go further on the economy, on health care, and so much else.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Successful, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Wisdom, Firsts

• We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, People, Office

• Senator [Bernie] Sanders is the only person who I think would characterize me, a woman running to be the first woman president, as exemplifying the establishment.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Thinking, President

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• Every political contest is hard, that's part of the DNA in America. We make it really tough to run for and hold the highest and hardest job in our country.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Running, Jobs

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• We're kind of in the wild west, and, you know, it would be very difficult to run for president without raising a huge amount of money and without having other people supporting you because your opponent will have their supporters.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, People, President

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• I think whoever runs next time has to have a very clear idea of where he or she wants to take America and has to run on those ideas, because the election cannot be about personalities, participants sniping, all of the irrelevant stuff the day after the election sort of dissipates, and you wake up and say, okay, now what am I going to do?

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.wbur.org

• It's really hard to get to know me, or any candidate. And I would be asked questions like, well, why are you really running for president?

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, President, Get To Know Me

  Source: www.pbs.org

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