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

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.

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.

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

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions

You know, my view is that we have a big world out there.

I really do hope that we have a woman president in my lifetime.

I always run inclusive and successful organisations.

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy – as well as in an individual’s life – is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.

People never expected a boy from a small town to have a life like I did.

Wonder and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.

We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favor, like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.

When I come into a tournament, I’m expecting to win. That’s my philosophy. I can’t go to a tournament thinking, ‘I’m going to get my ass kicked today, so I might as well leave.’

I sacrificed you for life, hope, optimism. Do you expect me to regret that?

Life just doesn’t care about our aspirations, or sadness. It’s often random, and it’s often stupid and it’s often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.

In international cricket, the core group in most of the teams would remain same. So you know what’s expected, but they will operate in different conditions, which is why the homework about conditions is the key.