I'm a problem-solver.

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

I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist who worries a lot.

I have certain issues. I support women candidates, but I cannot support a woman that I don't believe in. I would prefer to vote for a man who believes in choice than a woman who is pro-life. We have to be able to make distinctions and not look as though we are not feminist enough if we don't support every woman. We need to have that kind of a choice.

A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.