In foreign policy, even if you hold high office, you can't be sure what the effects will be of the things you do.

If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.

I'm a child of the Cold War. You do not say, "Oh, my God, there are Russian planes, so I'm going to cede the field." I mean, what kind of world would we have had if the United States had done that for 60 years?

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

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

The international community cannot stand by and watch the massacre of Libyan protesters. In Rwanda we watched. In Kosovo we acted.

When we talk about gender pay gaps in the United States, and if you look at women without children, they earn 96 cents for every dollar that a man is earning, while for mothers it is about 76 cents. That's nearly 25 percent less. For single mothers, the situation is even worse. One third of them are living in poverty or just on the edge of poverty. This is an unacceptable situation.