I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.

Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.

A great task has been completed and an even larger one remains.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

Our life comes in segments, and we have to understand that we can have it all if we're not trying to do it all at once.

The American Dream means being part of a society that allows you to be or do whatever you want, and to have a sense that your individual optimism and hard work will be rewarded. It exists outside of the U.S. as well as inside. People continue to come here because they want to improve their lives, they want to be able to support themselves and they want to live in freedom. A lot of people who criticize this country still send their children here to study.