Hillary Clinton Quotes About Democracy

• There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.

  Hillary Clinton

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Voice

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (1999). “Remarks and commentary by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton--Vital voices, 1997-1999”

• The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cynical, Democracy, Life Is

• Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.

  Hillary Clinton

  Integrity, House, Voting

  "Hillary Rodham Clinton: What Every American Should Know". Book by the American Conservative Union (p. 71), September 30, 2005.

• Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Reality, Ideas, Democracy

• 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.

  Hillary Clinton

  Two, Historical, Democracy

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (1999). “Remarks and commentary by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton--Vital voices, 1997-1999”

• Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone else.

  Hillary Clinton

  Real, Mean, Leader

  "Protesters In Egypt Pelt Hillary Clinton’s Motorcade With Tomatoes, Shoes" by Arshad Mohammed and Marwa Awad, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2012.

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Historical, Democracy

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (1999). “Remarks and commentary by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton--Vital voices, 1997-1999”

• I would say to the new leadership the American people are ready to meet you if you move forward toward the path of democracy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Moving, People, Historical

• Freedom means the right to assemble, organize, and debate openly. It means not taking citizens away from their loved ones and jailing them, mistreating them, or denying them their freedom or dignity because of peaceful expression of their ideas and opinions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mean, Expression, Ideas

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2014). “Hard Choices”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

• Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Democracies Have, Democracy, Has Beens

  "Standing O's greet Clinton in Brussels" by David S. Cloud, www.politico.com. March 6, 2009.

• At the end of the day, you have to be yourself, you have to say and stand for what you believe in, you have to be willing to get up and go ahead and take the slings and arrows and just try to persist through them, because it's apparently an inevitable part of our American democracy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Being Yourself, Believe, Arrows

  "Hillary Responds To Critics Allegations". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, wuot.org. January 13, 1996.

• Donald Trump's campaign is as divisive as any we have seen in our lifetimes. It is built on stoking mistrust and pitting American against American. It`s there in everything he says and everything he promises to do as president. This man is the nominee of the Party of Abraham Lincoln. We are watching it become the party of Trump. And that`s not just a huge loss for our democracy. It is a threat to it, because Donald Trump`s campaign adds up to an ugly, dangerous message to America.

  Hillary Clinton

  Party, Loss, Men

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties.

  Hillary Clinton

  Party, Two, Democracy

  "Hillary Clinton wows young Europeans" by Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2009.

• Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations.

  Hillary Clinton

  Democracy, Corporations, Billionaire

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• I care deeply about women's rights. I have been an outspoken advocate for them for many years and as secretary of state I carried that message around the world because empowering women, providing for women's rights, their full participation in society, politics, the economy is not only a matter of individuals being able to chart their own futures. It's good for democracy and it's good for peace and prosperity.

  Hillary Clinton

  Years, Rights, Empowering

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• Right now, we don't have any leadership from White House to try to understand what our principal foreign adversary was doing to interfere with our elections, to, in effect, destabilize our democracy. So, I think this is - this should be of interest to any American.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, House, Democracy

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too.

  Hillary Clinton

  Democracy, Corporations, Prosperity

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• I support our democracy. And sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

  Hillary Clinton

  Winning, Support, Democracy

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

• In a democracy, if people don't have accurate information, how can they be active citizens? How can they be part of the debate? And if you are facing powerful forces on the right and in Trump administration who want to create an alternative reality that feeds into their objectives for our country, you more than ever need the press to cut through that, and to be as accurate as possible.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Powerful, Cutting

  Source: www.pbs.org

• If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mean, Israel, People

  Hillary Clinton's Hanukkah dinner speech at Yeshiva University, December 2005.

• The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Democracy, Economy, Free Market

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• The Russian people deserve free and fair elections. They deserve to have a democracy.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Democracy, Election

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• The American system is, in many ways, more difficult, certainly far more expensive and much longer than a parliamentary system, and I really admire the people who subject themselves to it. Even when I, you know, think they should not be elected president, I still think, well, you know, good for you I guess, you're out there promoting democracy and those crazy ideas of yours.

  Hillary Clinton

  Crazy, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• A democracy depends on the full integration of women into society, especially on seeing to it that they have equal access to the same tools of opportunity as men.

  Hillary Clinton

  Opportunity, Equality, Men

• Donald Trump's talking down our democracy. And I, for one, am appalled that somebody who is the nominee of one of our two major parties would take that kind of position.

  Hillary Clinton

  Party, Talking, Two

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