Hillary Clinton

I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office.

You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that's bad for everybody.

I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.

Costs are incurred whenever any group is treated as lesser or the other, whether they are women, racial, or religious minorities, or the LGBT.

Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal.

It is a violation of human rights when governments declare it illegal to be gay.

Laws that discriminate validate other kinds of discrimination.

What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.

Caring for others is an expression of what it means to be fully human.

All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they love.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.

As women and as lawyers, we must never again shy from raising our voices against sexual harassment.

Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.

We have a lot of kids who don't know what works means. They think work is a four-letter word.

There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country.

True transformation only comes from sustainable strategies.

I've often thought that when something is hard for you, whether it's going to law school or anything else that challenges you, that's probably what you should do.

I always believed you could learn something from nearly everybody you meet, if you're open to it.

We are here to advance the cause of women and to advance the cause of democracy and to make it absolutely clear that the two are inseparable.