“I want to make a difference.”

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don’t contribute to the growth of their countries.

I don’t ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that.

Dynamism is a function of change.

I’ve never understood multi-party democracy. It’s hard enough with two parties.

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.

You can’t just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

I helped to restore America’s leadership.

I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.

When a new president comes in, a new president gets to clean house.

I mean, I’m a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can.

There are resources to help and simple steps that parents, preschools, businesses, and communities can take to help our kids succeed, because we’re all in this together, and that’s what the Too Small to Fail Initiative is all about.

People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.

Let’s learn from the wisdom of every mother and father who teaches their daughters there is no limit on how big she can dream and how much she can achieve.

I want a strong military. But I do not believe, among other things, that without an audit, we should be throwing tens of billions of dollars more into the Department of Defense.

Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it’s a personal life or a national life.

Great differences in technology exist in the world about which even hardcore technologists are unaware.

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don’t ever tell which is which.

There’s a difference between a want and a need. Some nights I just want more than me.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.