I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground.

I want to take some of the ideas that worked when my husband was president, and we ended up with 23 million new jobs and incomes went up for everybody.

We do not have to choose between a healthy environment and a healthy economy.

Senator [Ben] Sanders and I share some very big progressive goals. I've been fighting for universal healthcare for many years, and we're now on the path to achieving it. I don't want us to start over again. I think that would be a great mistake, to once again plunge our country into a contentious debate about whether we should have and what kind of system we should have for healthcare.

We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability.

There is no formula that I'm aware of for being a successful or fulfilled woman today.