What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and fears from friends, allies, around the world.

I would hope that the Senate would do its job and confirm the nominee that President [Barack] Obama has sent to them. That's the way the Constitution fundamentally should operate. The president nominates, and then the Senate advises and consents, or not, but they go forward with the process.

Racial inequality is a big problem.

If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, it is that human rights are women's rights — and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely — and the right to be heard.

We know that Russian intelligence services, which is part of the Russian government which is under the firm control of Vladimir Putin, hacked into the DNC. And we know that he arranged for a lot of those emails to be released.

As women and as lawyers, we must never again shy from raising our voices against sexual harassment.

I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties.