We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.
It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.
I'm saying there is no way that I will do this, because it's really not me. I know my strengths, and governor Romney needs to find someone who wants to run with him. There are many people who will do it very, very well, and I'll support the ticket.
We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.
We can't afford to leave Afghanistan to the Taliban and the terrorists.
We need a common enemy to unite us.
I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying.
Great powers can't get tired, because the international order is not self-governing.
We are not race blind. Of course we still have racial tensions in this country. But the United States of America has made enormous progress in race relations, and it is still the best place on Earth to be a minority.
I don't see myself in any way in elective office.
I could read music before I could read.
There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks.
My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.
Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same.
Frankly, as secretary of state, if somebody treats you badly because you're a woman, it's your fault - not theirs.
One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us.
I know a lot of very stable gay couples.
I'm actually - believe it or not, for an academic - an aural learner.
I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind of armor against racism.
When people don't have a hopeful vision before them or the possible resolution of their difficulties by peaceful means, then they can be attracted to violence and to separatism.
We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.
I think golf can be one of those places where we act and we hope that people act as we would like them to act all the time.
Hamas is a little more than an enemy of the United States. Hamas, of course, is a terrorist organization - listed by Europeans as a terrorist organization.
Believe it or not, I loved acid rock in college - and I still do.
I'm a very happy university professor... the best thing about being a university professor is that you see young people as they're being shaped and molded toward their own future, and you have a chance to be a part of that.