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.
Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right.
I don’t think we’re at war with Islam. I don’t think we’re at war with all Muslims. I think we’re at war with jihadists.
Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.
Like being a woman, like being a racial religious tribal or ethnic minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights.
If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.
You show people what you’re willing to fight for when you fight your friends.
I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I’ve had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.
I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
I need people to know that there is a group of people who are part of the leadership of the DNC, and I will make damn sure as a vice chair, and so will others, that we do everything humanly possible to have a level playing field.
You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.
It’s time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity.
I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, as well as a child.
I wish we weren’t fighting all the time to protect women’s rights, to protect women’s health.
We need to have a resolve that will bring the world together to root out the kind of radical jihadist ideology that motivates organizations like ISIS, a barbaric, ruthless, violent jihadist terrorist group.
The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they’re not.
I don’t ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that.
Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle.
I am all about new beginnings. A new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new email account. Why not a new relationship with the press?
There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country.