“I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.”

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.

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

I believe in a zone of privacy.

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body

If it were legal, I’d marry food.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.

I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.

Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don’t care about fame, I don’t care about being a celebrity. I know that’s part of the job, but I don’t feed into anyone’s idea of who I should be.