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  1. Hillary Rodham Clinton _ What Happened

    The journalist Rebecca Traister observed once that there was "an Indiana Jones–style, 'It had to be snakes' inevitability" about me facing Trump. "Of course Hillary Clinton is going to have to run against a man who seems both to embody and have attracted the support of everything male, white, and angry about the ascension of women and black people in America," she wrote. I was up for the challenge. And I might add: Of course I had to face not just one America-bashing misogynist but three. Of course I'd have to get by Putin and Assange as well.
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  2. Hillary Rodham Clinton _ What Happened

    when any barrier falls in America, for anyone, it clears the way for everyone.
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  3. Hillary Rodham Clinton _ What Happened

    I have a weakness for Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers and was delighted to find out that 55 goldfish were only 150 calories - not bad! One time, Liz brought something I hadn't tried before: Flavor Blasted Goldfish. We passed around the bag and discussed whether it was better than the original. Some of my staff thought yes, which was incorrect.
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  4. Hillary Rodham Clinton _ What Happened

    women are seen favorably when they advocate for others, but unfavorably when they advocate for themselves.
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  5. Hillary Rodham Clinton _ What Happened

    When I said, "You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables," I was talking about well-documented reality. ... But too many of Trump's core supporters do hold views that I find-there's no other word for it-deplorable.
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  6. Hillary Rodham Clinton _ What Happened

    When people feel left out, left behind, and left without options, the deep void will be filled by anger and resentment or depression and despair about those who supposedly took away their livelihood or cut in line.Trump brilliantly tapped into all these feelings.
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  7. Hillary Rodham Clinton _ What Happened

    I went back to de Tocqueville. After studying the French Revolution, he wrote that revolts tend to start not in places where conditions are worst, but in places where expectations are most unmet. So if you've been raised to believe your life will unfold a certain way-say, with a steady union job that doesn't require a college degree but does provide a middle-class income, with traditional gender roles intact and everyone speaking English-and then things don't work out the way you expected, that's when you get angry. It's about loss. It's about the sense that the future is going to be harder than the past. Fundamentally, I believe that the despair we saw in so many parts of America in 2016 grew out of the same problems that Lee Atwater and I were worried about twenty-five years ago.
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  8. Hillary Rodham Clinton _ What Happened

    Don't let the bastards get you down. Stay true to yourself and your values. Most of all, keep going.
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  9. Hillary Rodham Clinton _ What Happened

    They knew that the worse Washington looked, the more voters would reject the idea that government could ever be an effective force for progress. They could stop most good things from happening and then be rewarded because nothing good was happening. When something good did happen, such as expanding health care, they would focus on tearing it down, rather than making it better. With many of their voters getting their news from partisan sources, they had found a way to be consistently rewarded for creating the gridlock voters say they hate.
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  10. Hillary Rodham Clinton _ What Happened

    So I've never had much respect for activists who are willing to sit out elections, waste their votes, or tear down well-meaning allies rather than engage constructively. Making the perfect the enemy of the good is shortsighted and counterproductive. And when someone on the left starts talking about how there's no difference between the two parties or that electing a right-wing Republican might somehow hasten "the revolution," it's just unfathomably wrong.
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  11. Hillary Rodham Clinton _ What Happened

    The truth is, everyone's flawed. That's the nature of human beings. But our mistakes alone shouldn't define us. We should be judged by the totality of our work and life.
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  12. Hillary Rodham Clinton _ What Happened

    Will we ever have a woman President? We will.I hope I'll be around to vote for her--assuming I agree with her agenda. She'll have to earn my vote based on her qualifications and ideas, just like anyone else.When that day comes, I believe that my two presidential campaigns will have helped pave the way for her. We did not win, but we made the sight of a woman nominee more familiar. We brought the possibility of a woman president closer. We helped bring into the mainstream the idea of a woman leader for our country. That's a big deal, and everyone who played a role in making that happen should be deeply proud. This was worth it. I will never think otherwise. This fight was worth it."
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