Hillary Clinton President Quotations

When a new president comes in, a new president gets to clean house.

When I negotiated the ceasefire in Gaza with President Morsi, he was, you know, very involved.

The most important questions for anybody thinking of running for president are not 'Will you run and can you win?' There is, 'What is your vision for America? And can you lead us there?'

Presidents should be very careful at all times in discussing the use or non-use of nuclear weapons. Presidents since the cold war have used nuclear deterrence to keep the peace, and I don't believe that any president should make any blanket statements with respect to the use or non-use of nuclear weapons.

While I may not be the youngest candidate in this race, but I will be the youngest woman president in the history of the United States.

What's great about America is anybody can run for president. That is literally true.

America can't succeed unless you succeed. That is why I am running for president of the United States.

I agree with the president [Barack Obama]. I've said myself, we will not send American combat troops back to either Syria or Iraq - that is off the table.

I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president.

I'm not going to speculate.I'm just going to run my campaign, talk about what I'm doing and why I think I'd be the best president of any of the candidates on either side.

Senator [Bernie] Sanders is the only person who I think would characterize me, a woman running to be the first woman president, as exemplifying the establishment.

When you're president, you can't vote present. You have to make a decision. Sometimes it's a split second decision. You don't have time to think about it. You've got to actually decide.

I probably described more times than I can remember how stressful it was advising the President [Barack Obama] about going after Bin Laden.

Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit to be president and commander-in-chief.

I think that the coalition that President [Barack] Obama put together to win twice is a coalition that I can put together and add to.

We've got this arc of instability from North Africa to South Asia, and we have to pay close attention to it. And we have to build coalitions, something that I did to take on the Iranian nuclear program, and what I will do as president to make sure that we defeat these terrorist networks.

I care deeply about Democratic party and our agenda and making sure that we can continue to build on President [Barack] Obama`s legacy. So any suggestion that I am doing anything other than manage this primary impartially and neutrally is ludicrous.

I have more understanding, more compassion. I am on a much more important quest for the truth than any of you. You just don't want me to be president.

It is time to pick a side.Either we stand with the gun lobby or we join the president and stand up to them.

Donald Trump is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his most hateful supporters. It's a disturbing preview of what kind of president he'd be.

I would not have imagined being asked to be Secretary of State, it was a great honor to serve with President Obama in his cabinet.

If Donald Trump's main claim to be president of the United States is your business, then I think we should talk about that.

We're kind of in the wild west, and, you know, it would be very difficult to run for president without raising a huge amount of money and without having other people supporting you because your opponent will have their supporters.

I think what President [Barack] Obama has done is to chart a steady course. When I was there, the first four years we had a lot of cleanup to do. We inherited a lot of bad feelings from the [George W.] Bush administration, and much of what I spent my time doing was traveling around the world reassuring friends and allies.

I will not let somebody who traffics in bigotry and bullying become president of the United States.

I'm going to keep talking about what I would do as president, the experience that I bring, the temperament and judgment that led President [Barack] Obama to ask me to be secretary of state after we ran a really hard primary against each other. It's funny to me, because when I have a position, whether it's first lady, or senator, or secretary of state, and I'm doing the work, I'm really quite popular.

Everybody brings their personality to any position, and that's true for presidents like anyone else.

You have to be a little bit crazy to run for president.

We know that we have to have the right combinations of government policies and private sector energy and dynamism. Getting that balance right is what I know President Obama has tried to do, and at every turn he's been stopped.

I find it deeply disturbing that someone wanting to be president of the United States would talk the way Donald Trump talks, use the rhetoric, the demagoguery, the bigotry and the bluster and the bullying that he has demonstrated.

I'm going to do everything I can to be the best president I can be for all America.

I'm thrilled the president [Barack Obama] has endorsed me. We started off as fierce competitors, and we've ended up as true friends and partners and worked together on so many important issues.

I think what more and more Americans are concluding is that Donald Trump is not a man who is qualified to be president, and he is not fit to be commander and chief.

Part of what we'll have to figure out is what do you call the male spouse of a female president? Now, it's a little bit more complicated with him because people still call former presidents Mr. President.

We need steady hands, not a president who says he's neutral on Monday, pro-Israel on Tuesday, and who knows what on Wednesday, because everything's negotiable.

I am somewhat influenced by the years that I've spent trying to actually get things done, whether it was reforming education in Arkansas or a survey and Legal Services Corporation board when President [Jimmy ]Carter appointed me and trying to get lawyers for poor people. I have worked in these areas. I know it's more than just a hope. You've got to translate it into a policy that leads to action.

Democrats, Republicans, independents, people across America. If you don't vote for me, I still want to be your president.

As president, I will appoint tough, independent authorities to strengthen anti-trust enforcement and really scrutinize mergers and acquisitions, so the big don't keep getting bigger and bigger.

I prepared to be president. And I think that's a good thing.

I've stood up to Russia. I've taken on Putin and others, and I would do that as president.

I hope by the time I am president that we will have pushed ISIS out of Iraq.

As president, I will ramp up enforcement of trade rules by appointing a new chief trade prosecutor and tripling the number of enforcement officers. We will work with both parties to pass the biggest investment new good paying jobs since World War II.

I want to take some of the ideas that worked when my husband was president, and we ended up with 23 million new jobs and incomes went up for everybody...

As a senator, I raised the alarm about sub prime mortgages. I fought to hold reckless manufacturers accountable for toxic toys and household products that threaten our kids. I introduced legislation to protect Americans' personal data and combat identity theft. So as president, I will make consumer protection a top priority across the entire government.

More than 60 percent of small businesses face payment delays. That can cause a serious cash flow crisis. So, as president, I will explore new ways to arm small businesses with the tools to fight back and level the playing field.

Donald Trump is the first candidate ever to run for president in the last 40-plus years who has not released his tax returns, so everything he says about charity or anything else, we can't prove it.

For 40 years, everyone running for president has released their tax returns. You can go and see nearly, I think, 39, 40 years of our tax returns, but everyone has done it.

We did drive them [Iran] to the negotiating table. And my successor, John Kerry, and President [Barack] Obama got a deal that put a lid on Iran's nuclear program without firing a single shot. That's diplomacy. That's coalition-building. That's working with other nations.

I'm going to use the White House and every tool at my disposal as your president to make the case that patriotism is profitable.

I have absolutely no interest in running for president again.

This year, the United States renewed funding of reproductive healthcare through the United Nations Population Fund, and more funding is on the way. The U.S. Congress recently appropriated more than $648 million in foreign assistance to family planning and reproductive health programs worldwide. That's the largest allocation in more than a decade - since we last had a Democratic president, I might add.

He [ Vladimir Putin] would rather have a puppet as president of the United States.

From almost the first day they got into office, they (President Bush and Vice President Cheney) were trying to figure out how to get rid of Saddam Hussein. I'm not a psychiatrist - I don't know all of the reasons behind their concern, some might say their obsession.

I will be as careful as I can in making the most significant decisions any president and commander-in-chief can make about sending our men and women into harm's way.

I'm against Trans-Pacific Partnership now. I'll be against it after the election. I'll be against it when I'm president.

When you inherit the level of economic catastrophe that President Obama inherited, it was a real touch-and-go situation.

We acknowledge-now with President Obama-that we have made mistakes in the United States, and we along with other developed countries have contributed most significantly to the problem we face with climate change.

With prior Republican nominees for president, I disagreed with them on politics, policies, principles, but I never questioned their fitness to serve. Donald Trump is different.

I want to be the president for all Americans, regardless of your political beliefs, where you come from, what you look like, your religion.

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

As president, I will take that work, that bipartisan work, that finding common ground, because you have to be able to get along with people to get things done in Washington.

I want to be the best president I can be for every American.

I admire President Obama. He inherited the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. That was a terrible time for America.

We'll get things done together. Democrats, Republicans, independents, we're going to make progress together when I'm president.

Don't you someday want to see a woman president of the United States of America?

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

Donald Trump is the most dangerous person to run for president in the modern history of America.

We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability.

I really do hope that we have a woman president in my lifetime.

Words matter when you run for president. And they really matter when you are president.