I think the hardest part [is] the priorities. There are an awful lot of things to do [being Secretary of State].

Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and profound than any party affiliation.

We must help women in every society to have their voices heard.

If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.

We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.