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It Wasn't Until 1998 That I Ever Seriously Thought About Running For Office. And I Didn't Make Up My Mind To Do That Until 1999, And Then I Ran For The Senate. It Was Really Hard For Me.

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It Wasn't Until 1998

Hillary Clinton

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It Wasn't Until 1998 That I Ever Seriously Thought About Running For Office. And I Didn't Make Up My Mind To Do That Until 1999, And Then I Ran For The Senate. It Was Really Hard For Me.

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Human Rights Are Women's Rights, And Women's Rights Are Human Rights. Let Us Not Forget That Among Those Rights Are The Right To Speak Freely - And The Right To Be Heard.

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So Many States Are Putting Very Stringent Regulations On Women That Block Them From Exercising That Choice To The Extent That They Are Defunding Planned Parenthood, Which, Of Course, Provides All Kinds Of Cancer Screenings And Other Benefits For Women In Our Country.

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I Want To Teach. I Want To Speak. I Want To Travel.

I Have Put Together Resources From The Private And Philanthropic Communities To Help Provide A Bridge Because You've Got To Get The Federal Money. You've Got To Get The State Money, But I'm Going To Do Everything I Can. And I Will Be With Flint All The Way Through This Crisis In Whatever Capacity I Am.

We Have To Be Cognizant Of The Fact That They've Had Foreign Fighters Coming To Volunteer For Them, Foreign Money, Foreign Weapons, So We Have To Make This The Top Priority.

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Knowledge Experience

It Is Past Time For Women To Take Their Rightful Place, Side By Side With Men, In The Rooms Where The Fates Of Peoples, Where Their Children's And Grandchildren's Fates, Are Decided.

Knowing What To Expect Next Gives Children A Sense Of Security.

Democracy Is Still A Radical Idea In A World Where We Often Confuse Images With Realities, Words With Actions.

We Need To Have An Economy That Works For Everybody, Not Just People On The Top.

Let's Learn From The Wisdom Of Every Mother And Father Who Teaches Their Daughters There Is No Limit On How Big She Can Dream And How Much She Can Achieve.

No Government Can Love A Child, And No Policy Can Substitute For A Family's Care. But At The Same Time, Government Can Either Support Or Undermine Families As They Cope With Moral, Social And Economic Stresses Of Caring For Children.

Life Is Too Short, Time Is Too Precious, And The Stakes Are Too High To Dwell On What Might Have Been. We Have To Work Together For What Still Can Be.

Life Is Too Short

Working Together

I Can't Speculate On What Did Or Did Not Happen. I Only Know What I Said And What I Intended To Convey.

We've Got To Remain Energy-independent. It Gives Us Much More Power And Freedom Than To Be Worried About What Goes On In The Middle East. We Have Enough Worries Over There Without Having To Worry About That.

I Don't Think Labels Are As Important As Results.

The Fbi Doesn't Get A Dime Until [james] Comey Is Gone. George [w.bush] Tried To Warn Us He Was A Trouble Maker But Did Barack [obama] Listen? Nooo!

Reconciling With An Adversary That Can Be As Brutal As The Taliban Sounds Distasteful, Even Unimaginable. And Diplomacy Would Be Easy If We Only Had To Talk To Our Friends. But That Is Not How One Makes Peace.

We Don't Have Enough Support For Maternal Leave And The Kinds Of Things That Some Of The European Countries Do. So We Still Make It Hard On Women To Go Into The Work Force And Feel That They Can Be Good At Work But Then Doing The Most Important Job, Which Is Raising Your Children In A Responsible And Positive Way.

The Financial Disclosure Statements, They Don't Give You The Tax Rate. They Don't Give You All The Details That Tax Returns Would.

Donald Trump Would End Up Raising Taxes On Middle-class Families.

When It Comes To Policing, Since It Can Have Literally Fatal Consequences, I Have Said, In My First Budget, We Would Put Money Into That Budget To Help Us Deal With Implicit Bias By Retraining A Lot Of Our Police Officers.

There Is A Hunger For The United States To Be Present Again.

Often Those Who Are Denied Rights Are Least Empowered To Bring About The Changes They Seek.

I Think Probably [donald Trump] Is Not All That Enthusiastic About Having The Rest Of Our Country See What The Real Reasons Are, Because It Must Be Something Really Important, Even Terrible, That He's Trying To Hide.

We Shouldn't Leave The Work Of Politics To People Who Run For Public Office.

The Children-my Own And Other People's-became The Passion Of My Personal And Professional Life.

The Orlando Terrorist May Be Dead. But The Virus That Poisoned His Mind Remains Very Much Alive. And We Must Attack It With Clear Eyes, Steady Hands, Unwavering Determination And Pride In Our Country And Our Values.

When I Spend My Time Out On The Campaign Trail, It's Usually About What I Can Do For Somebody Else. I Don't Like Talking About Myself, I Don't Like The Whole Atmosphere Of How People Are Judged In American Politics Too Often As To What You Say Instead Of What You Do. And So For Me It's Always About What Can I Do For You? How Can I Help You?

Whether I Am Meant To Or Not, I Challenge Assumptions About Women. I Do Make Some People Uncomfortable, Which I'm Well Aware Of, But That's Just Part Of Coming To Grips With What I Believe Is Still One Of The Most Important Pieces Of Unfinished Business In Human History - Empowering Women To Be Able To Stand Up For Themselves.

Unfinished Business

I Think We've Got To Understand The Complexity Of The World That We Are Facing And No Place Is More So Than In The Middle East.

I Feel Like I Have Had The Most Amazing Life In My Public Service.

The United States Has Kept The Peace Through Our Alliances. Donald Trump Wants To Tear Up Our Alliances. I Think It Makes The World Safer And, Frankly, It Makes The United States Safer. I Would Work With Our Allies In Asia, In Europe, In The Middle East, And Elsewhere. That's The Only Way We're Going To Be Able To Keep The Peace.

You Know, The Vibrancy Of The Black Church, The Black Businesses That Employ So Many People, The Opportunities That So Many Families Are Working To Provide For Their Kids. There's A Lot That We Should Be Proud Of And We Should Be Supporting And Lifting Up.

Although We Were Not Able To Shatter That Highest And Hardest Glass Ceiling This Time, Thanks To You It Has 18 Million Cracks In It, And The Light Is Shining Through Like Never Before, Filling Us All With The Hope And The Sure Knowledge That The Path Will Be A Little Easier Next Time, And We Are Going To Keep Working To Make It So, Today Keep With Me And Stand For Me, We Still Have So Much To Do Together, We Made History, And Lets Make Some More.

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I Don't Feel Particularly Courageous.

We [with Donald Trump] Just Have A Different View About What's Best For Growing The Economy, How We Make Investments That Will Actually Produce Jobs And Rising Incomes.

It Is Important To Learn How To Take Criticism Seriously, But Not Personally.

While Millions Of American Families, Including Mine And Yours, Were Working Hard Paying Our Fair Share, It Seems Donald Trump Was Contributing Nothing To Our Nation. Imagine That. Not Fair. Nothing For Pell Grants To Help Kids Go To College. Nothing For Veterans. Nothing For Our Military.

Getting Countries Working Together Was My Job Every Day As Your Secretary Of State.

Working Together

Don't Tear Other People Down. Lift People Up.

No Matter What You Think About The Iraq War, There Is One Thing We Can All Agree On For The Next Days - We Have To Salute The Courage And Bravery Of Those Who Are Risking Their Lives To Vote And Those Brave Iraqi And American Soldiers Fighting To Protect Their Right To Vote.

I Think That We Have To Be Constantly Asking Ourselves, 'how Do We Calculate The Risk?' And Sometimes We Don't Calculate It Correctly; We Either Overstate It Or Understate It.

Voting Is The Most Precious Right Of Every Citizen, And We Have A Moral Obligation To Ensure The Integrity Of Our Voting Process.

There's A Lot That The Majority, A Big Majority Of The American People Want To See Us Do And I'm Very Excited About That Work. I Think The Democratic Party Has A Record Of Being Better For The Economy When We Hold The White House.

I Believe Strongly That Commonsense Gun Safety Measures Would Assist Us.

I Believe That I Have Created A Lot Of Cognitive Dissonance In The Minds Of People Who Are Comfortable With Stereotypes.

If You Get Arrested, You`re Supposed To Know Why You`re Arrested. So, Freddie Gray Should Have Known Why He Was Arrested. His Friends, His Family, His Community, They Should Have Known What He Was Charged With, Why He Was Arrested. And The Police Should Have Come Out With That Right Away.

I Think That Trade Is An Important Issue. Of Course, We Are 5 Percent Of The World's Population; We Have To Trade With The Other 95 Percent. And We Need To Have Smart, Fair Trade Deals.

Let's Also, My Friends, Let's Raise The Minimum Wage And Support The 5 For 15 So You Don't Live In Poverty.

... The Best Missile Defense System Of All Would Be A Just And Lasting Peace.

The Word Gap Leads To An Achievement Gap And Has Life-long Consequences

I Think That I Have Been Clear That Demonizing And Demagoguing About Muslims Is Not Only Offensive It Is Dangerous And It Plays Into Isis's Hands.

I Respect The Second Amendment And The Right Of Individuals To Own Firearms. But I Think That We All Agree That There Are Some People Who Should Not Be Able Just To Walk In And Buy Weapons Of War.

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