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.

I think that the Middle East is the largest piece of unfinished business that we all have. I happen to believe in the democratization process.

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

One of the things I write about a bit in my Madam Secretary memoir is on Rwanda, where I was an instructed ambassador at the U.N., and my instructions were to not vote for increased forces there, and I didn't like my instructions. So I got up and called Washington and said, "Change my instructions," and they didn't.

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

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

It's important that we invest in America - literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can't let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.