My husband has spent more time with our children than I have. I don't think they're better or worse off.

Our approach [to global security] has changed by the way we've elevated development. The biggest lesson is to recognize global responsibility.

What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works.

I think an awful lot of the reasons people put forward for not liking Hillary Clinton play into deep-seated, negative female stereotypes: ambition, secrecy, calculating. I mean, that is Lady Macbeth, a kind of cold woman. I don't think that's Hillary. And I don't think people would judge a man in the same way.

Having it all means having the same work and family choices that men do. It doesn't mean having everything that you want. No one has that.

We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else.

It was interesting that feminists of my generation told me: You are discouraging younger women; you are confirming stereotypes of women; you are opening a door, initiating a debate, that will harm our movement. And my point was: We are already having this debate, especially in the younger generation.