{"author":"Hillary Rodham Clinton","author_id":"Hillary+Rodham+Clinton","total_quotes":26,"quotes":[{"text":"And, and to all the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.","author":"Hillary Rodham Clinton","tags":["feminism","inspirational"],"id":996,"author_id":"Hillary+Rodham+Clinton"},{"text":"You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people — now 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric. Now some of those folks — they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.But the other basket — and I know this because I see friends from all over America here — I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas — as well as, you know, New York and California — but that other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change. It doesn’t really even matter where it comes from. They don’t buy everything he says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won’t wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they’re in a dead end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.","author":"Hillary Rodham Clinton","tags":["deplorables","hilary-clinton","politics"],"id":38109,"author_id":"Hillary+Rodham+Clinton"},{"text":"We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...Searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...For the integrity, the courage to be whole, living in relation to one another in the full poetry of existence. The struggle for an integrated life existing in an atmosphere of communal trust and respect is one with desperately important political and social consequences...Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it.-Commencement Speech, Wellesley 1969.","author":"Hillary Rodham Clinton","tags":["fear","future","inspiration"],"id":112608,"author_id":"Hillary+Rodham+Clinton"},{"text":"One reason I continue to oppose efforts to criminalize abortion is that I do not believe any government should have the power to dictate, through law or police action, a woman's most personal decisions.'I consider that a slippery slope to state control of reproduction, and I'd witnessed the consequences of such control in China and Communist Romania.","author":"Hillary Rodham Clinton","tags":["family-planning","human-rights","leadership"],"id":120848,"author_id":"Hillary+Rodham+Clinton"},{"text":"Every child needs a champion.","author":"Hillary Rodham Clinton","tags":["children","vision"],"id":125612,"author_id":"Hillary+Rodham+Clinton"},{"text":"You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.","author":"Hillary Rodham Clinton","tags":["betrayal","life","life-and-living","life-lessons","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","reality","reality-check","trust","truth"],"id":160053,"author_id":"Hillary+Rodham+Clinton"},{"text":"I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.","author":"Hillary Rodham Clinton","tags":["agreement","beliefs","opinions"],"id":167515,"author_id":"Hillary+Rodham+Clinton"},{"text":"You've got to be willing to stay committed to someone over the long run  and sometimes it doesn't work out. But often if you become real honest with yourself and honest with each other  and put aside whatever personal hurt and disappointment you have to really understand yourself and your spouse  it can be the most wonderful experience you've ever had.","author":"Hillary Rodham Clinton","tags":["work"],"id":173531,"author_id":"Hillary+Rodham+Clinton"},{"text":"Let us admit that some government programs and personnel are efficient and effective, and others are not. Let us acknowledge that when it comes to the treatment of children, some individuals are evil, neglectful, or incompetent, but others are trying to do the best they can against daunting odds and deserve not our contempt but the help only we—through our government—can provide. Let us stop stereotyping government and individuals as absolute villains or absolute saviors, and recognize that each must be part of the solution. Let us use government, as we have in the past, to further the common good.","author":"Hillary Rodham Clinton","tags":["child-care","children","government"],"id":179394,"author_id":"Hillary+Rodham+Clinton"},{"text":"What did you do with the time and talents I gave you? God's question...","author":"Hillary Rodham Clinton","tags":["philosophical"],"id":198864,"author_id":"Hillary+Rodham+Clinton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}