At the end of the day, you have to be yourself, you have to say and stand for what you believe in, you have to be willing to get up and go ahead and take the slings and arrows and just try to persist through them, because it's apparently an inevitable part of our American democracy.

When I went off to college, I went believing I was a Republican. And actually I was president of Young Republicans for a couple of months and then I decided that I was much more in the camp of people like, you know, President Johnson - trying to promote civil rights, voting rights, ending poverty.

Whether you call it radical jihadism or radical Islamism, I think they mean the same thing. I'm happy to say either.

Our global future depends on the willingness of every nation to invest in its people, especially women and children.

I'd be just incredibly humbled and honored to be the first woman president.

I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002.

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.