Huma Abedin

thumb|Huma Abedin at an event in 2022 Huma Mahmood Abedin (born July 28, 1975) is an American political staffer who was vice chair of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign for President of the United States. Before that, Abedin was deputy chief of staff to Clinton when she was U.S. Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013. She was also the traveling chief of staff and former assistant to Clinton during her 2008 presidential campaign for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential election campaign. Quotes To make your own choices, but be thoughtful about them, not rash. On what she learned from her father As long as you had that grounding, as long as you had that place where you knew you could draw strength, where you knew you had a strong family to support you, everything was going to be OK. on her family Diplomacy is about meeting the world with open eyes, attuned listening and small gestures of outreach. It was second nature to Hillary Clinton. Abedin on diplomacy So much of what happened to me professionally felt like I was floating in a cauldron, and so much about this book is about taking control Huma Abedin on her memoir, ‘Both/And,’ which comes out in paperback on October 4 When I was a little girl, I believed that my life would somehow be different from the lives of everyone around me in her memoir Quotes for Huma Abedin I have never wavered from the belief that public service is a worthy profession, that the reward is worth the risk, that the stakes are too great to turn away from the calling. Take a chance. Don’t be afraid of what you don’t know. And don’t fall in love with Plan A. External links Category:1975 births Category:Living people Category:Women from the United States Category:Democratic Party (United States) politicians Category:United States federal government officials Category:Women politicians in the United States Category:Muslims from the United States Category:Women born in the 1970s Category:Politicians from Michigan