You know no one will ever accuse me as having the same policies as George W. Bush.
— Hillary Clinton
I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office.
The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.
My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.
Egypt is a large, complex, very important country.
When you're the presidential nominee you get to pick whomever you choose to be on the ticket, and that person gets to say yes or no because, obviously, it's a very important decision.
I think I'm chronically exhausted.
I certainly don't read coverage of me, I read what else is going on that I need to know about to do my job.
Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.
I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.
I have won elections and I have lost elections.
In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.
I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now.
In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.
I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.
The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.
I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.
I drink tons of water. Just as much water as I can possibly drink.
I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.
One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.
What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and fears from friends, allies, around the world.
Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel, which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people.
I won the youth vote in Massachusetts and in California. I did very well with it in Ohio.
There's no day that is the same as the day before. So you have to be energized; you have to be focused.
Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.
I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do.
I feel like every day, every minute I have to make the most of.
I can't stand whining.
I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.
I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.
Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.
I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.
When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.
I have absolutely no interest in running for president again. None. None. I mean, I know that's hard for some people to believe, but, you know, I just don't.
I have a lot of stamina and I have a lot of resilience.
I take vitamins.
Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.
I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.
I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.
I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.
I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.
I always run inclusive and successful organisations.
I love New York.
You have to be true to yourself.
When my hair was shorter, I used to get it done every couple of days... but I got tired of that.
I've been really at the highest levels of American political life.
I'm too old to be a yuppie.
My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.
It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.
This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.
