The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.
Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.
Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.
When women participate in peace-making and peace-keeping, we are all safer and more secure.
We have a close, unshakable bond between the United States and Israel, and between the American and Israeli people. We share common values and a commitment to a democratic future for the world, and we are both committed to a two-state solution. But that doesn't mean that we're going to agree.
Showing up is not all of life - but it counts for a lot.
You know, one of the things my husband says when people say 'Well, what did you bring to Washington,' he said, 'Well, I brought arithmetic.'
Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest.
It should never be a crime to be gay.
I get it that some people just don't know what to make of me.
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.
I'll get involved in philanthropy.
The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.
I am 100% in the camp that says forgiveness is mostly about the forgiver.
There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.
I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.
I can't drive anymore.
You have to test your ideas in a public forum.
I wish I were taller and thinner but the hair you can do something about.
I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.
If you can't compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries.
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.
Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.
Israel has a right to defend itself.
I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.
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 it's at all weakening of the system if people with the same last name put themselves forward to the electorate, when their experiences, their character, and in my case, gender, may be different.
I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, as well as a child.
The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.
I really get up every day and try to deal with the problems that are in front of me, and I don't really worry about history. That will work itself out over time.
There's a difference between fair game and playing games.
I represented Wall Street, as a senator from New York, and I went to Wall Street in December of 2007 - before the big crash that we had - I basically said, 'Cut it out! Quit foreclosing on homes! Quit engaging in these kinds of speculative behaviors.'
Hard men present hard choices - none more so than Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia.
I think I'm very hardheaded.
In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
I mean, I'm a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can.