The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.
—Hillary Rodham Clinton
Topics: Change, Future, Responsibility
Women are always being tested … but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.
—Hillary Rodham Clinton
Topics: Being True to Yourself
We need a new ethos of greater responsibility and caring.
—Hillary Rodham Clinton
Topics: Kindness
You can decide to be someone who brings people together, or you can fall prey to those who wish to divide us. You can be someone who educates yourself, or you can believe that being negative is clever and being cynical is fashionable. You have a choice.
—Hillary Rodham Clinton
Topics: Choices
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible
—Hillary Rodham Clinton
Topics: Challenges
But we also know that to be educated, the goal of it must be human liberation. A liberation enabling each of us to fulfill our capacity so as to be free to create within and around ourselves. To be educated to freedom must be evidenced in action…
—Hillary Rodham Clinton
Topics: Education
No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family’s care
—Hillary Rodham Clinton
Topics: Government
Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is … For me, that balance is family, work, and service.
—Hillary Rodham Clinton
Topics: Balance
I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.
—Hillary Rodham Clinton
Topics: Journeys, Obligation
I believe in a zone of privacy.
—Hillary Rodham Clinton
You show people what you’re willing to fight for when you fight for your friends.
—Hillary Rodham Clinton
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
Bill Clinton American Head of State
George W. Bush American Head of State
Thomas Jefferson American Head of State
Madeleine Albright Czech-born American Diplomat
Jimmy Carter American Head of State
Calvin Coolidge American Head of State
William McKinley American Head of State
John Quincy Adams American Head of State
John C. Calhoun American Head of State
George H. W. Bush American Head of State