Hillary Clinton Quotes

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.

Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.

You [the President] invite Congressmen to the White House for dinner. And you know what is does? It puts them in great with their wives, because the wives love to be invited to the White House.

Territorial Governors -- are nothing but politicians who go out to the outskirts of countries and suffer the privations there in order to build up stakes and come back as United States Senators.

I've been really at the highest levels of American political life.

I would be surprised to see the White House scaling back on anything. That would be an admission they are operating from a position of weakness.

Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.

I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.

Life itself has so much politics, why should I make it my profession? I'm just a politician's son, not a politician myself. Two politicians, that's my dad and elder brother, in the family are enough. I'm happy doing my own stuff in Bollywood.

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.

If I was into politics, I would be rich.

People like to do politics with me, and they like to do business.

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

I think it would be so much fun to be in the White House.

Obama considers himself above deal-making and back-slapping, political necessities he often delegates to Vice President Joe Biden and other lesser sorts.

I figured it out real early: How can you control the city unless you're the leader of your party?

All politics is not local. All politics is personal.

My God. What is there about this place [the White House] that a man should ever want to get into it?

Politics are now nothing more than the means of rising in the world.

The hardest thing in most Ottawa men's [politicians] pants is their cellular phone.

As Chairman of the [House] Ways and Means Committee, I can contact the President whoever he may be, quite readily on the telephone. As a Vice President, I don't know whether he'd listen to me or not.

Lunched with Jack Kennedy, the new Senator from Massachusetts. He has the making of a first-class Senator or a first-class fascist.