“Motown, Motown, that’s my era. Those are my people.”

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

I want to make a difference.

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.

I don’t think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position.

In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

We believe strongly that the road to peace and two states living side by side does not go through New York, it goes through Jerusalem and Ramallah.