13 Hillary Clinton Quotes on Leadership

Hillary Clinton quotes on leadership

1. If you want to remain on this detail, get your f**king ass over here and grab those bags.

22. I have said publicly no option should be off the table, but I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table.

24. The lost opportunities of the years since September 11 are the stuff of tragedy. Remember the people rallying in sympathy on the streets of Teheran, the famous headline - 'we are all Americans now.' Five years later much of the world wonders what America is now. As we face this landscape of failure and disorder, nothing is more urgent than for us to begin again to rebuild a bipartisan consensus to ensure our interests, increase our security and advance our values. It could well start with what our founders had in mind when they pledged 'a decent respect for the opinions of mankind' in the Declaration of Independence. I think it's fair to say we are now all internationalists and we are all realists. This Administration's choices were false choices. Internationalism versus unilateralism. Realism versus idealism. Is there really any argument that America must remain a preeminent leader for peace and freedom, and yet we must be more willing to work in concert with other nations and international institutions to reach common goals? The American character is both idealistic and realistic: why can't our government reflect both?

36. It did take a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, and I think it might take another one to clean up after the second Bush.

37. You know, there's a great saying in Texas - you've all heard it - all hat and no cattle. Well, after seven years of George Bush, we need a lot less hat and a lot more cattle.

39. It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.

41. Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.

49. So I made a mistake. That happens. It proves I'm human, which you know, for some people, is a revelation....I was also told that the greeting ceremony had been moved away from the tarmac but that there was this eight-year-old girl and I said, 'Well, I, I can't, I can't rush by her, I've got to at least greet her.' So I greeted her, I took her stuff and I left. Now that's my memory of it.

51. You know, I have written about this and described it in many different settings, and I did misspeak the other day. This has been a very long campaign.

57. I want to get this shit over with and get these damn people out of here.

59. She is one of the most ruthless people we have ever seen in politics.

61. 'She's the most unbelievable actress I have ever met,' said a woman who worked on Hillary's Senate campaign. 'I remember one time at a Women's Leadership Forum event in New York, thirty of us sat around Hillary, talking about politics. And she said, 'You know, I love this organization, not just because we sit around and talk about politics, but because of the bonds of friendship forming around us.' The way she said it, people were riveted by her performance. But I had gotten to know her, and I could tell she didn't mean it. She has this unbelievable ability to be a liar. She is soulless.'

63. It's not a very big thing to say, 'I made a mistake' on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can't. She's advised by so many smart advisers who are covering every base. I think that America was better served when the candidates were chosen in smoke-filled rooms.