Hillary Clinton Quotes


We have to live with the world that we helped to create.


Context

Her reference was to the fact that when the Russians invaded Afghanistan in the Cold War, the United States decided to arm and train Islamic fighters to oust the Russians. They did, but then the Mujahideen, as the fighters were called, formed the backbone of Al Qaeda and the Taliban who turned on us.


Citations

Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady (William Clinton), U. S. Secretary of State, U. S. Senator (Democrat, NY), Reference to U. S. build-up of the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, Interview, National Geographic Channel, Inside the State Department, November 8, 2010

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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
  • Born: October 26, 1947
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Politician

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer, and public speaker who served as the 67th United States secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, as a United States senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, and as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president of the United States by a major political party when she won the Democratic Party nomination in 2016. She was the first woman to win the popular vote in an American presidential election; however, she failed to win the Electoral College.