Hillary Clinton Quotes About Economy

• When women participate in the economy, everyone benefits.

  Hillary Clinton

  Benefits, Economy

  "For Clinton, empowering women is 'unfinished business'" by Alex Moe, firstread.nbcnews.com. June 13, 2013.

• Let's prove that we're going to stand together, make the smart decisions that will get the economy going and growing for everybody, not just those at the top, that we will stand up against special privilege and special interest.

  Hillary Clinton

  Smart, Decision, Special

  Source: time.com

• There is no doubt that the increasing numbers of women in the economy has helped fuel significant growth everywhere. And economies that are making the shift more effectively and rapidly are dramatically outperforming those that have not.

  Hillary Clinton

  Numbers, Doubt, Growth

  Keynote Speech APEC Summit on Women and the Economy, delivered 16 September 2011, Westin St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, CA

• When women thrive, economies thrive.

  Hillary Clinton

  Economy, Thrive

• What I want people to know is I went to Wall Street before the crash. I was the one saying you're going to wreck the economy because of these shenanigans with mortgages. I called to end the carried interest loophole that hedge fund managers enjoy. I proposed changes in CEO compensation.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wall, People, Wrecks

  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 take seriously the concerns that voters are expressing. There's a lot of disappointment, fear, even anger, among people who believe that the economy has failed them, their government has failed them, politics has failed them. They have every right to be concerned.

  Hillary Clinton

  Disappointment, Believe, Government

  Source: www.businessinsider.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

• What I believe is the more we can do for the middle class, the more we can invest in you, your education, your skills, your future, the better we will be off and the better we'll grow. That's the kind of economy I want us to see again.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Class, Skills

  Transcript: First presidential debate at Hofstra University, www.cbsnews.com. September 27, 2016.

• Our history has shown us that the strongest growth in our economy is inclusive, broad-based growth.

  Hillary Clinton

  Growth, Economy, Broads

  "Policy Prescriptions: Trump and Clinton on economic growth", www.dailymail.co.uk. October 24, 2016.

• Bringing undocumented immigrants out from the shadows, putting them into the formal economy will be good, because then employers can't exploit them and undercut Americans' wages.

  Hillary Clinton

  Shadow, Wages, Economy

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

• People are, you know, a little - they're still uncertain, and they're uncertain both because they don't know what might come next in terms of regulations, but they're also uncertain because of changes in a global economy that we're only beginning to take hold of.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Littles, Might

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I take running for president and being president really seriously. It's a - maybe the toughest job in the world, right? And I knew that there was unfinished business from the successful two terms of President Obama, whom I had served, but that we needed to go further on the economy, on health care, and so much else.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Successful, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

• We've got to be prepared to stop these guys if they ever try to use their economic power once again, to hurt the economy, and to hurt so many Americans. And my plan, Paul Krugman, Barney Frank, a lot of experts who understand what the new challenges might be, have said I am exactly on point, and the Wall Street guys actually know that.

  Hillary Clinton

  Hurt, Wall, Guy

  "Transcript of the Democratic Presidential Debate". www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

• I believe strongly that we need a finance industry that is good for the economy, and I don't think anybody would argue that during the eight years leading up to the Great Recession, a lot of bets were made [and] risks taken that weren't good for the economy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Taken, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• I am determined that we're going to get the economy really moving again, building on the progress, but never going back to what got us in trouble in the first place.

  Hillary Clinton

  Moving, Progress, Firsts

  Transcript: First presidential debate at Hofstra University, www.cbsnews.com. September 27, 2016.

• I call it [Donald's Trump plan] trumped-up trickle-down, because that's exactly what it would be. That is not how we grow the economy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Would Be, Economy, Trump

  Source: time.com

• The economy is rigged in favor of those at the top.

  Hillary Clinton

  Favors, Economy, Rigged

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• I want to get everybody out of the shadows, get the economy working, and not let employers like Donald Trump exploit undocumented workers, which hurts them, but also hurts American workers.

  Hillary Clinton

  Hurt, Shadow, Want

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

• If we're going to be an effective, efficient economy, we need to have all part of that engine running well, and that includes Wall Street and Main Street.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Wall, Needs

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I want us to invest in you. I want us to invest in your future. That means jobs in infrastructure, in advanced manufacturing, innovation and technology, clean, renewable energy, and small business, because most of the new jobs will come from small business. We also have to make the economy fairer. That starts with raising the national minimum wage and also guarantee, finally, equal pay for women's work.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mean, Technology, Innovation

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Iraq, Debtors, Helping

• Simply put, we have to be smart about how we use our power. Not because we have less of it – indeed, the might of our military, the size of our economy, the influence of our diplomacy, and the creative energy of our people remain unrivaled. No, it's because as the world has changed, so too have the levers of power that can most effectively shape international affairs.

  Hillary Clinton

  Military, Smart, People

• While we're talking about votes, Bernie Sanders is one who voted to deregulate swaps and derivatives in 2000, which contributed to the over-leveraging of Lehman Brothers, which was one of the culprits that brought down the economy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Brother, Talking, Derivatives

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• I've laid out my economic plans. I want to grow the economy. That's why I have plans for jobs and raising incomes. I do want to go after bad actors on and off Wall Street, because I think companies that take money from federal, state, and local governments and then pick up and move should have to pay that back.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Wall, Moving

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• But let's not assume that trade is the only challenge we have in the economy. I think it is a part of it, and I've said what I'm going to do.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Challenges, Assuming

  "Fact Check: First Presidential Debate". wvxu.org. September 27, 2016.

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