What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator." - Meaning and context.">
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Date: 2013-01-23, quoted in McClam, Erin (2013-02-01), "The making of Hillary Clinton: 15 moments that define her public life", NBC News
• regarding 2012 attack on US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya
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With all due respect, the fact is, we had four dead Americans—was it because of a protest or because of guys out for a walk one night and decided to go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator.

— Hillary Clinton

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "With all due respect, the fact is, we had four dead Americans—was it because of a protest or because of guys out for a walk one night and decided to go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator." in the context of "Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Date: 2013-01-23, quoted in McClam, Erin (2013-02-01), "The making of Hillary Clinton: 15 moments that define her public life", NBC News
• regarding 2012 attack on US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: Wikiquote: "Hillary Clinton" (Quotes, Secretary of State (2009–2013)) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed February 05, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app

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Hillary Clinton

About Hillary Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born 26 October 1947) is a former United States secretary of state, U.S. senator, and First Lady of the United States. From 2009 to 2013, she was the 67th secretary of state, serving under President Barack Obama. She previously represented New York state in the Senate (2001 to 2009). Before that, as the wife of President Bill Clinton, she was First Lady from 1993 to 2001. In the 2008 election, Clinton was a leading candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. In 2016, she became the first female candidate to be nominated for president by a major U.S. political party. Clinton lost the presidential election to Donald Trump on November 8, 2016.