Hillary Clinton Quotes

You have to set big goals for yourself. And you have to put aside all the negativity in your life that tells you that if you came from a certain education or a certain family background that you can't achieve big goals. That's one of the things that America has.

America just works better when more people have a chance to live their dreams

Our history has moved in that direction slowly at times but unmistakably thanks to generations of Americans who refused to give up or back down.Now you are writing a new chapter of that story. This campaign [2016] is about making sure there are no ceilings, no limits on any of us. And this our moment to come together.

What could you accomplish if no one told you it was impossible?

Don't let anyone tell you that great things can't happen in America... Barriers can come down. Justice and equality can win.

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

I support women, men, anybody who is in a place that's not their strongest and who is ready to push forward.

I look forward to a time, in the not so distant future, when we no longer look forward to 'firsts' as milestones women have yet to achieve, but we look back on them as historic events that continue to teach and inspire.

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.

I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'

America stands for the land of opportunity.

All girls know that they can be anything now. That transformation is to me one of the most satisfying things.

The man of the millennium is much more liberated than the man of the '90s.

Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

Our freer, but yet far from freed, land is the asylum, if asylum there be, for the hope of man.

All Americans are kings.

Stronger than all the armies is the idea whose time has come. The time has come for equality in sharing in government and education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here.

Our country has become the land of opportunity to those born without inheritance.

Economic democracy and political democracy are like two legs of a person. They must go side by side…. Once people know about their rights and claim their rights, nothing is going to stop them.

… an America as good as its promise.

The American Dream

I saw America as a land of opportunity, not a bastion of racism or sexism.