Ze maakte ook een keer een religieus grapje:
“Prayer matters," Clinton joked at the Faith Forum that sometimes her plea is: “Oh, Lord, why can’t you help me lose weight?” But her daily habit, she said, is praying, “for discernment, for wisdom, for strength, for courage …."
Je zou denken: alles bij elkaar een beetje mager, maar er is zelfs een heel boek over het onderwerp geschreven:´God and Hillary Clinton, a Spiritual Life´ van Paul Kengor. Daarover schreef The Washington Post destijds enigszins vermoeid: Hillary Clinton is speaking about her Faith. Again.
"I have always cherished the Methodist Church because it gave us the great gift of personal salvation but also the great obligation of social gospel," Clinton said to the group of 7,000 women gathered here. "And I took that very seriously and have tried, tried to be guided in my own life ever since as an advocate for children and families, for women and men around the world who are oppressed and persecuted, denied their human rights and human dignity."