We [USA] need to deal with our problems here at home if we're going to be strong enough to lead abroad.

I love to watch football.I actually really love to watch almost any competition with a score at the end.

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

You know, as Secretary of State, I've been privileged to represent this great country, and I know its strengths, and I know its challenges. One of its strengths is the belief - here and abroad - that this is a place where you get ahead on merit. It doesn't matter where you came from; it matters where you're going.

You know, I look at Vladimir Putin as somebody who is an eye-for-an-eye kind of person. We questioned the legitimacy of his election in 2012, Secretary Clinton did - rightly, by the way. It did have - it was quite fraudulent.And so I think he's saying now, I'm going to show you that I can do the same thing.

You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.

There clearly are contacts between al Qaeda and Iraq that can be documented; there clearly is testimony that some of the contacts have been important contacts and that there's a relationship here