Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.

I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.

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.

But I think there are some who believe they are actually protecting women, you know, and that it is better for women to be taken care of. I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important. And frankly, I don’t understand — I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat — but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America.

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