Hillary Clinton Quotes

Changing social policy is just dogged hard work.

The policy of the future cannot forever be determined by the politics of the past - or even the present.

People are tired of the status quo. You see that in various movements in and out of our the Republicans party, but most candidates are offering hollow rhetoric, not specific solutions.

When the President makes something a priority, we see action.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

You've got to have a theme if you're going to get Congress to do something difficult.

If it works, it's obsolete.

Politically, you can’t do pain without the gain.

I know it may be hard to imagine given how broken and gridlocked our politics truly are, but from the White House to, yes, Congress, the government is filled with hard-working, idealistic public servants working incredibly hard on tough issues, trying to make people's lives better and move the country, and our world, forward.

We absolutely have to change the status quo in Washington.

You need a real crisis before you have reforms.

Every single stage of reform becomes more difficult because you use political capital.

To succeed, we have to be the party of change, we have to root out corruption in our own ranks and we have to be the party of solutions.

Hillary Clinton's message is that things will never change, never, ever. My message is that things have to change and they have to change right now.

I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress.

I think the center ground have got to become the people of change again and not the guardians of the status quo. And that is the weakness it comes to in our campaign. You can see it in your politics, you can see it everywhere.

We need to make sure that the laws we're passing are protecting people. And we should not be voting against something that makes progress just because it doesn't make as much progress as we'd like to see made. As much as I might like to see any number of issues progress in larger steps, I understand that some of these things happen in smaller steps. And so for that reason, progress is progress. And success is success.

Nobody can tell me that no changes are necessary in Washington.

The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.

The point of the essay is to change things.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Reform is not a period of retreat.

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.

I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?