We're beginning to see some increase in incomes, and we certainly have had a long string of increasing jobs. We've got to do more to get the whole economy moving, and that's what I believe I will be able to do.

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life

My own country's record on human rights for gay people is far from perfect.

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

One of the ways you go after the debt, one of the ways you create jobs is by investing in people.

I have to defend my husband.