“I have many, many old friends, and I always think that it`s important, when you get into politics, to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what`s on their minds.”

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.

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don’t.

I believe in a zone of privacy.

It’s so much more fun to watch FOX when it’s someone else being blitzed & sacked!

There cannot be true democracy unless women’s voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.

We’ll hold out our hand; they have to unclench their fist.

We can let go of the person or love or friendship without letting go of the lesson.

Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.

Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls – family, health, friends, integrity – are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.

Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.

Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.

There it was: a few friends, laughter, and the safest place on earth.

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.