If I'm strong, I'm not going to apologize for being strong.

I was in such a state of mental shock and quickly spiraled into a depression at the multitude of loss. My husband, I thought, was going to leave me. I was cut off from this mentor and someone I cared for very much, David Petraeus, who also did nothing to stand up for me and in fact, empowered his surrogates to throw me under the bus, and that was devastating.

It's part of the reason I decided to speak out now. This was the tipping point for me. If it's O.K. for [David Petraeus ] to campaign for a job in the administration, then I'm going to campaign to get back out there, too.

Imagine what Ivanka Trump life has been like? She's been eaten alive by the media. I have empathy for that.

I don't have the advocates. I don't have a good old boys network. Part of what I want to do is to create a good old girls network.

As an intelligence officer, if you don't have a security clearance, you really don't have a job. My military position was, and has been, frozen, for four years.

I was incredulous as the bias of the media in terms of the candidates [for presidency]. I was incredulous at the fake news.