Our country deserves no less, because all of the other issues we want to deal with depend upon us being secure and strong.

I can't stand whining. I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made. You live in a time when there are endless choices ... Money certainly helps, and having that kind of financial privilege goes a long way, but you don't even have to have money for it. But you have to work on yourself ... Do something!

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.

I couldn't be a White Sox fan because that was like being a Mets or a Yankees fan.

We have to defeat ISIS. That is my highest counterterrorism goal.

I don't want to rip away the security that people finally have; 18 million people now have healthcare; preexisting conditions are no longer a bar.

I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position.