Hillary Clinton Quotes
We have to take the world as we find it and do what we can to improve upon it.
For a related sentiment, see Eleanor Roosevelt’s letter to A. Philip Randolph.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady (William Clinton), U. S. Secretary of State, U. S. Senator (Democrat, NY), Speech, New York University Law School, September 22, 1998
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1st Baron Macaulay. FDR used the latter part of the quotation in a speech to the Democratic State Convention, Syracuse, NY, September 29, 1936.
The impication is that small changes are just as hard often and might be easier than large changes.
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.