One of the signs that things are going reasonably well for democracy is that we have the states where they're closer to the people. Federalism is a strength. We have all of these civil society institutions - civil society is a very important hallmark of democracy.

You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.

Everywhere that I go in the world, people desperately look to American leadership in all of their world's most difficult problems. You can look at any region of the world and the United States is still the country to which those regions look for leadership.

I find it odd that suddenly people believe the United States is this Islamophobic country. I think this is the most tolerant country in the world.

We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.

What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow, but not what you did yesterday.

As I was telling my husb — As I was telling President Bush.