I get up every morning and I'm grateful for everything that has happened. I go through my list about being grateful for my children and grandchildren, and for the really remarkable life that I have been able to have.

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.

I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.

The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

We went to the same college so I know [Hillary Clinton's] study habits, but when she was first lady of Arkansas, she did a lot of things already for children, and she was head of the Children's Defense Fund, and that's how I first heard her or met her, she was very very involved in really a very important social program to do something about children and women and education.

What's the point of having this superb military you're always talking about if we can't use it?