• I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's rights and human rights. I wasn't born a wife or a mother.
• I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.
• I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history,
• Would you tell your parents something for me? Ask them, if they have a gun in their house, please lock it or take it out of their house. Will you do that as good citizens? [to a group of schoolchildren]
• I think it does once again urge us to think hard about what we can do to make sure that we keep guns out of the hands of children and criminals and mentally unbalanced people. I hope we will come together as a nation and do whatever it takes to keep guns away from people who have no business with them.
• We need to be as well prepared to defend ourselves against public health dangers as we should be to defend ourselves against any foreign danger.
• God bless the America we are trying to create.
• I have to confess that it's crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian.
• I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.
• If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.
• In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
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Quote collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis. Each quotation page in this collection and the entire collection © Jone Johnson Lewis 1997-2005. This is an informal collection assembled over many years. I regret that I am not be able to provide the original source if it is not listed with the quote.
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