Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.


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CHELSEA CLINTON
What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without...
HILLARY CLINTON
It's impossible to know what happens in the fog of war.
HILLARY CLINTON
To me you cannot be fully human, fully civilised, unless you recognise humanity in everyone.
HILLARY CLINTON
I think I'm chronically exhausted.
HILLARY CLINTON
The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people...
HILLARY CLINTON
I believe climate change is real and that we can save our planet while creating millions of good-pay...
HILLARY CLINTON
I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
HILLARY CLINTON
The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the...
HILLARY CLINTON
There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, ricks...
HILLARY CLINTON
I hope that my children will someday be as proud of me as I am of my mom. I am so grateful to be her...
CHELSEA CLINTON
I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.
CHELSEA CLINTON
In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Wel...
HILLARY CLINTON
When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your...
BILL CLINTON
Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to...
BILL CLINTON
You know, it's just one small step from legacy to lame duck.
BILL CLINTON
Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty...
BILL CLINTON
It's the economy, stupid.
BILL CLINTON
If people can't let go to the hatred of their enemies, they risk sowing the seeds of hate among them...
BILL CLINTON
People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq o...
BILL CLINTON
I have a lot of reason to believe, as we saw in the 2012 election, most Americans don't agree wi...
HILLARY CLINTON
I'll work to ensure that every single refugee who seeks asylum in the United States has a fair c...
HILLARY CLINTON
In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.
HILLARY CLINTON
My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and ...
HILLARY CLINTON
Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.
HILLARY CLINTON
I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's ...
GEORGE CLINTON
It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gather...
HILLARY CLINTON
Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those ad...
CHELSEA CLINTON
We're always going to argue about abortion. It's a hard choice and it's controversial, a...
HILLARY CLINTON
The Arctic is going to be an area of intense interest. Russia has the longest coastline in the world...
HILLARY CLINTON
In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is cle...
HILLARY CLINTON
If you believe you can make a difference, not just in politics, in public service, in advocacy aroun...
HILLARY CLINTON
I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and d...
HILLARY CLINTON
My parents always asked me what I thought, listened to my opinions, articulated their diagnoses of o...
CHELSEA CLINTON
We need more good jobs that reward hard work with rising wages, dignity, and a ladder to a better li...
HILLARY CLINTON
There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world,...
HILLARY CLINTON
You know, just to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I ...
HILLARY CLINTON
I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.
HILLARY CLINTON
I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being Preside...
HILLARY CLINTON
The first sort of big present I remember getting from Santa Claus was quite a small telescope that I...
CHELSEA CLINTON