Hillary Rodham Clinton
Department of State official portrait (27 January 2009)
Born: 26 October 1947, Chicago, Illinois
Hugh Rodham operated a small successful textile business, he moved his family to suburban Park Ridge when Hillary was three. Hugh was conservative Republican, his wife Dorothy was a "closet Democrat". Hillary was a good student, active in sports, Brownies and Girl Scouts, student council, and the school paper at Maine East High School, district lines pushed her into Main South for her senior year (1965). She went to Wellesley College outside Boston, majoring in political science. She had campaigned for Goldwater in high school, and was president of the Young Republicans at Wellesley, but interest in the civil rights movement and opposition to the war in Viet Nam led her to resign; she campaigned for Gene McCarthy. She organized a two-day student strike to help black students push for more black faculty, was elected prediet of the student body, and was the first student to give the commencement address there, an address that criticized a Republican senator she had campaigned for and who had spoken before her at the ceremony. She went to Yale Law School where she started dating the bearded, long-haired Bill Clinton. She became an expert on the law related to children, working for Marian Wright Edelman's Children's Defense Fund. She failed to pass the District of Columbia bar exam, but passed the Arkansas bar and taught at the University of Arkansas and Fayetteville, where Bill was also on Faculty, but still declined his proposals of marriage. In 1975, he bought a house in Little Rock and she finally accepted, she then joined the Rose Law Firm and mostly dealt with intellectual property law. She was first lady of Arkansas for twelve years, then campaigned in Bill's 1992 presidential campaign. She was probably the first lady that was most active in terms of influencing policy, with the possible exception of Eleanor Roosevelt, who Clinton says she had imaginary conversations with to help her make decisions, and was often attacked by conservatives. Near the end of Bill's second term, New York senator Daniel Moynihan announced his retirement, the Clintons bought a house in Chappaqua, New York, and Hillary decisively won the seat, and reelection in 2006. She launched her own campaign for president in 2007 and was seen as the front runner up to the start of the primaries, by Super Tuesday (5 February 2008) it was clear that Barack Obama was the winner. She stopped attacking Obama but stayed in the race until conceding on 7 June. Within days of Obama's election he contacted Clinton about serving as Secretary of State, she was confirmed by the senate and sworn in the day after the inauguration, and is currently serving in that position.
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- All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them. permalink
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it. permalink
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Concession speech at Washington City (7 June 2008) - Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. When you stumble, keep faith. When you're knocked down, get right back up. And never listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on. permalink
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Concession speech at Washington City (7 June 2008) - American values are not just about America, but they speak to the human dignity, the God-given spark that resides in each and every person across the world. permalink
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Remarks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Kansas City, Missouri (20 August 2007) - And Israel is not only our ally; it is a beacon of what democracy can and should mean.... If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel. permalink
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Hanukkah dinner speech at Yeshiva University (December 2005) - Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom. permalink
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have. permalink
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Eleanor Roosevelt understood that every one of us every day has choices to make about the kind of person we are and what we wish to become. You can decide to be someone who brings people together, or you can fall prey to those who wish to divide us. You can be someone who educates yourself, or you can believe that being negative is clever and being cynical is fashionable. You have a choice. permalink
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Every child needs a champion. permalink
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Every moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward. permalink
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price. permalink
Hillary Rodham Clinton - (13 September 2001) - First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave. permalink
Hillary Rodham Clinton - It Takes a Village (1996) - Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation ... in the face of tyranny, cruelty, oppression, extremism, sometimes there is only one choice. permalink
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Remarks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Kansas City, Missouri (20 August 2007) - From my perspective, you get up every day and you get out there and you make your case, and you reach as many people as possible. permalink
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Interview with George Stephanopoulos (30 December 2007) - Home is a child's first and most important classroom. permalink
Hillary Rodham Clinton - It Takes a Village (1996)
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