Hillary Clinton Quotes

We have decided that now is the time for me to focus intently on my top priority, my family, as Elizabeth and I raise our two young children. To that end, I will not seek reelection to a third term.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

I had no intention of getting back into politics. I was teaching at Bowdoin and happily retired from politics.

Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife said 'why don't you say you're giving up to devote more time to politics?'. And it is what I have done.

If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.

I just decided to take some time off. I've been modeling since '93, '92, and that's a pretty long time. I'm a single mother and I chose to focus on her.

When I left the Senate in January 2013, I decided to take a full year away from all media interviews, editorial articles, and direct political activities.

When I'm finished with politics, I'll have a richer life. I'd like to go to the theatre.

Politics as a parent is fairly demanding; if your parent is in politics, it's fairly demanding, so I make no excuses about taking two weeks off.

I am not joining politics. I don't intend to contest election. I am happy to be back to doing normal things, be it films or other work.

I'll know when to retire when I don't want to push myself anymore.

I do not have any strong desire to remain in government. When my task is done, I shall be happy to leave and enhance my love life with my husband.

The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.

Hillary Clinton is still - she's such a private person.

My mom didn't run for mayor until she was 65 years old - it was like a second and third career.... The way I've always thought about it is that I don't believe you run for office because you want a job. I believe if you run for office, it's because you have a vision for change. And if I ever came to that point, that's what would lead [me to run]. And right now I'm happily in a position where I believe I can work to deliver impact and work for change.

Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.

I have absolutely no interest in running for president again.

My sense is that being a First Lady is a full-time job, but I'll know more when the time comes.

Hillary Clinton's been around for 30 years. Why do these stories need to be told? It isn't all of this widely known?

There's never a time when I'm not working. I don't take vacations.

Hillary Clinton is a person who has enormous - I have enormous respect for, has a very distinguished career.

[Hillary Clinton] really wants to be president. She wanted to be president in '08. She's hardly left the spotlight.

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

I don't really compartmentalize well. I'm in a state of anxiety and panic a lot, but it's for different reasons. It used to be because I had nothing going on, but I work very hard and there doesn't seem to be an end to it.

Personally, having, you know, lived and worked in the White House, having been a senator, having been Secretary of State, there has traditionally been a great pool of very talented, hard-working people.