Oct 26, 1947 - Oct 10, 2025
First Lady of the United States (1993-2001)
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I support our democracy. And sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
There are things we can do [with violence], and we ought to do it in a bipartisan way.
I meet people who can\'t get healthcare for their families, people who are just distressed over what is happening in our country. So when somebody asks me, \'How do you get up?\' it really triggered in me the feeling that that\'s what I want us all to think about each other. How do we get up? How do we pull on our shoes, go out and deal with the problems America faces. That\'s what I intend to do as president.
I think we come at it from somewhat different perspectives. You know, Donald [Trump] was very fortunate in his life, and that\'s all to his benefit.
It\'s one of the reasons [Vladimir Putin invitation to U.S] why 50 national security officials who served in Republican information - in administrations have said that Donald [Trump] is unfit to be the commander- in-chief. It\'s comments like that that really worry people who understand the threats that we face.
I can`t think of an election that is more important, certainly in my lifetime.
Responding to sexism you have to not just remain silent but try to figure out a proper response - again, though, not going to the place of anger and feeling sorry for yourself, because that kind of plays into the hands of the sexists.... It does take practice though.
The Russian people deserve free and fair elections. They deserve to have a democracy.
I think people do want change, but we want to make sure that the change will actually help people. And that\'s why I reject the change agenda that Donald Trump has.
You know, compromise can\'t be a dirty word in American politics. There\'s plenty to argue about. Trump administration is still talking about ridiculous tax cuts for the wealthiest of the wealthy. That should be resisted with every fiber of our being.
This has never happened to a major - to a nominee of a major party just a few days ago Donald Trump was endorsed by the official newspaper of the Ku Klux Klan. They wrote their endorsement under the slogan of his campaign, \'make america great again.\' Do any of us have a place in Trump`s america?
Donald Trump can\'t even handle the rough and tumble of a presidential campaign. He loses his cool at the slightest provocation. When he has gotten a tough question from a reporter, when he is challenged in a debate. When he sees a protester at a rally. Imagine, if you dare imagine, imagine him in the Oval Office facing a real crisis. A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons. And in the end, it comes down to what Donald Trump doesn\'t get, America is great because America is good.
I have a lot of friends in South Carolina.
If Trump doesn`t respect all Americans, how can we trust him to serve all Americans?
We got to think of something for people to do.
Donald Trump\'s insulting comments about women go hand in hand with his plans to defund Planned Parenthood and appoint Supreme Court justices who will end legal abortion.
Inflammatory, anti-Muslim rhetoric and threatening to ban the families and friends of Muslim Americans as well as millions of Muslim business people and tourists from entering our country hurts the vast majority of Muslims who love freedom and hate terror.
I will always be dedicated to the talented men and women at our headquarters in Brooklyn and across the country.
I think that is a responsibility we all share as Americans. But as State Department employees, we have a special duty to guard ourselves and our sensitive information. Complying with department policies and being alert to potential threats will help protect all of us.
I don\'t think any of us have the answers to everything. There\'s no human being on earth who fits that category. So why wouldn\'t you ask for help? Why wouldn\'t you run ideas by people that you respect? Too many young people cast around trying to figure out what the answer is themselves, because they\'re afraid to come back and say, \'I\'m not sure I understood you,\' or \'Could you give me a little more information about what you need?\' Just do that. It saves you time, it saves your boss\'s or mentor\'s time. And it\'s a great lesson to learn.
It\'s dark and it\'s divisive - deporting 11 million people, talking about law and order, calling every group of people in America names, talking about cutting taxes on the wealthy, feeling like Donald Trump can bring more nuclear weapons into the world - I mean, everything he\'s talked about is a form of change.
I\'m not going to be able to wave a magic wand and change everybody\'s thoughts. That\'s something that can only happen by people working on themselves and being held to account by the rest of us, but what Donald Trump\'s done really unleashed a lot of darkness and divisiveness.
Donald Trump thinks belittling women makes him bigger. We need to stand up and be clear that we don\'t want this, we need to celebrate diversity. America is great because America is good.
When I hear Donald Trump say, \'Make America great again\', I wonder when he thought America ever was great.\' He has been criticizing our country for decades. He even criticized Ronald Reagan.
If a woman wants to succeed in the public arena, she needs to grow skin as thick as the hide of a rhinoceros. I have certainly, as you can tell, have had to learn how to do that, and there\'s a lot of good moisturizers I can tell you about if you\'re interested. The second thing is to learn how to take criticism seriously but not personally.
President Obama\'s made the White House really the people\'s house. People feel like they\'re welcome.
I think that I am the person who can do all aspects of the job. I think I\'m the person best prepared to take the case to the Republicans. And I think that at the end of the day, it\'s not so much electability. It is who the American people can believe can keep them safe, can get the economy moving again, can get incomes rising, can build on the progressive accomplishments of President [Barack] Obama.
Every nation has to either be with us or against us. Those who harbor terrorists or who finance them, uh, are going to pay a price.
Americans need help understanding their world now more than ever. [TV] believes it\'s filled its obligation to the public because it\'s presented both sides. But most of what we\'re living through now has multiple sides, and those sides, if you take the extreme oppositional views, have to be brought together for people to make a decision about how to act on the information.
Yes, we\'ve cut the maternal mortality rate in half, but far too many women are still denied critical access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth, and laws don\'t count for much if they\'re not enforced. Rights have to exist in practice - not just on paper. Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.