Hillary Clinton Quotes About Children

• There's no such thing as other people's children.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, People

• Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are often the refugees from conflict and sometimes, more frequently in today's warfare, victims. Women are often left with the responsibility, alone, of raising the children.

  Hillary Clinton

  Husband, Children, Father

  Hillary Cinton's speech at the conference on domestic violence in San Salvador, El Salvador, clintonwhitehouse3.archives.gov. November 17, 1998.

• Home is a child's first and most important classroom.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Home, Important

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “It Takes a Village”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

• I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Caring, Men

• Giving every child a chance to reach their full potential is the best work anyone can do

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Giving, Full Potential

• 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.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Women, Fate

• All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Giving, Our Children

• It takes a village to raise a child.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Memorable, Village To Raise A Child

  Hillary Clinton (0101). “Talking It Over: A collection of her newspaper columns from 1995 to 1996”, p.78, Creators Publishing

• I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, as well as a child.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Thinking, Giving

  "Clintons considering second child", www.cnn.com. May 25, 1996.

• I believe that what I've worked for - women and children, civil rights against poverty, trying to level the playing field for people to have a better chance - is what I still believe is important and what I'm trying to do today.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Believe, Rights

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• The children-my own and other people's-became the passion of my personal and professional life.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Passion, People

• Our global future depends on the willingness of every nation to invest in its people, especially women and children.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, People, First Lady

• We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.

  Hillary Clinton

  Inspirational, Children, Given

• The first years of life are not just important; they are more crucial to shaping children than any other time. Even before they speak, children are extremely sensitive to the messages adults send them.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Years, Important

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “It Takes a Village”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

• Children exist in the world as well as in the family. From the moment they are born, they depend on a host of other “grownups” — grandparents, neighbors, teachers, ministers, employers, political leaders, and untold others who touch their lives directly and indirectly.

  Hillary Clinton

  Teacher, Children, Grandparent

  "It Takes a Village".

• Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.

  Hillary Clinton

  Education, Religious, Children

• 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.

  Hillary Clinton

  Positive, Country, Jobs

• My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

  Hillary Clinton

  Family, Children, Growing Up

• Of course, parents are the most important people in a child's life.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, People, Parent

• They [parents] can resist the impulse to "prove" their love by showering children with things they do not need and give them precisous time and attention instead.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Giving, Parent

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “It Takes a Village”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

• Several people have told me that one of the most meaningful events they could attend would be something at the White House with their children.

  Hillary Clinton

  Meaningful, Children, White

• Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Growing Up, African American

  Announcing Suspension of Presidential Campaign, delivered 7 June 2008, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.

• Religion is about God's truth, but none of us can grasp that truth absolutely, because of our own imperfections and limitations. We are only children of God, not God. Therefore, we must not attempt to fit God into little boxes, claiming that He supports this or that political position. This is not only bad theology; it marginalizes God.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Support, Imperfection

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2006). “It Takes a Village”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

• In the very first debate I was asked am I a moderate or a progressive and I said I'm a progressive who likes to get things done. Cherry picking a quote here or there doesn't change my record of having fought for racial justice, having fought for kids rights, having fought the kind of inequities that fueled my interest in service in the first place going back to my days in the Children's Defense Fund.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Kids, Rights

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

• I want us to do more to support people who are struggling to balance family and work. I've heard from so many of you about the difficult choices you face and the stresses that you're under. So let's have paid family leave, earned sick days. Let's be sure we have affordable child care and debt-free college.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Stress, Struggle

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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