Everything that you are taking advantage of, inventing and using, is still a generation or two behind when it comes to the U.S. government.

When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

I served on the budget committee in the Senate, and I remember as vividly as if it were yesterday when we had a hearing in which Alan Greenspan came and justified increasing spending and cutting taxes, saying that we didn't really need to pay down the debt - outrageous in my view.

I believe strongly that commonsense gun safety measures would assist us.

I think it's a false trade-off to say quality time versus quantity - you have to have both.

Learn from your mistakes, trying to figure out what the best way to go forward is.