We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.

I supported Israel 100 percent as a senator for 28 years and I've supported it 100 percent as Secretary of State.

I met with many of - a number of [Syrian] refugees in Berlin the other day, and I was struck by how educated, intelligent, and patriotic they are. They want to go back. They love their country. And there are so many of them still in Jordan and in refugee camps in Lebanon and in Turkey, that if you could create the climate within which they could begin to come back, I believe there is such a history of secularism within Syria, even tolerance within Syria, that if we can deal with ISIL, yes. That's the key. And with ISIL there, not a chance.

You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.

I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life.

Great challenges confront our great nation. We seek to meet them by rising to the task, not by defining our country down.

I think that our own crisis of democracy is in its own way affecting our ability to leverage in the same way that we used to in the world.