What's the point of having this superb military you're always talking about if we can't use it?

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.

John Kerry knows more about more subjects than an awful lot of people. But I think it's a very hard job [Secretary of State].

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

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

You can't just think that you will get a job for no good reason... And I think that the other part is you have to work your way up, you know I did a lot of Xeroxing and getting coffee...I always did what I was asked to do. I delivered. People knew that I would get things done and get them done well. And that is a big part of our resumes, are based on being responsible and being willing to do what needed to be done.