Hillary Clinton Quotes

It really is possible to disagree with someone's policies without hating them. Grown-ups can do that.

In politics, all candidates and volunteers are ambassadors to voters who expect better than parroting the politics of personal destruction. Being able to find common ground at the higher ground is what separates the stateswoman from the stuntwoman.

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.

Moral teaching should always be used as a gift and not a cudgel.... It is important that we all be able to share our moral viewpoints without hurting each other. That is what is wrong with political discourse today.

The greatest respect you can give your political adversaries is to give them your undivided attention. If you want them to hear you, you have to be willing to hear them.

Somewhere in this we got into impugning people's character and motives if we didn't like their ideas. We gotta get back to just debating ideas.

Dad knew how to disagree without being disagreeable or rude.

I think you can be in disagreement with a president you support without being disrespectful or nasty or snide.

There is a way to disagree with someone, but it doesn't have to be threatening.

It's OK for two sides to disagree. It's perfectly fine. It's normal.

We can be fervent in our disagreements without being factitious with our beliefs.

I'm not scared of diversity. We have to have debates and win the argument, and if there are amendments that need to be brought up so we find out where the party is, so be it.

If I have my opinion about something, you have your opinion about something, we don't have to fight over it. And we can have a conversation. We can also disagree without being disagreeable, and we can just disagree, which is fine. It doesn't mean that I don't like you, or you don't like me. We just disagree.

The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.

Our civilization is becoming less civil. You don’t have the right to demonize somebody just because they disagree with you.

Public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

Drawing forceful distinctions and being civil are not mutually exclusive.

When I am contradicted it arouses my attention, not my wrath. I move toward the man who contradicts me: he is instructing me. The cause of truth ought to be common to both of us.

I get very very concerned when I hear people start characterizing their opponents as stupid. I still understand that because politics is a little rough and tumble at times, but I don’t buy it and when they start calling each other either crazy or evil. You and I, we don’t compromise with crazy people or evil people. And so, I don’t think that’s helpful. Generally speaking, just because someone disagrees with you doesn’t make them crazy or evil.

A critical component of progress is engaging with people you don't agree with - everything else is the status quo.

I think it's important to have conversation about things instead of shutting things down.

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.

I'm very lucky in my constituency. I have very grown up sensible members who don't agree with me, but we never have a quarrel. I absolutely respect their views.