Hillary Clinton

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

I don't ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that.

People can judge me for what I've done. And I think when somebody's out in the public eye, that's what they do. So I'm fully comfortable with who I am, what I stand for, and what I've always stood for.

I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company, as so many people who leave public life do.

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.

Americans deserve to feel secure in their own lives, in their own middle-class aspirations, before you go to them and say, 'We're going to have to enforce navigable sea lanes in the South China Sea.'

I feel very blessed to have a partner in life who supports me, who is enthusiastic about what I want to do, who has been a great father, and who will be a fabulous grandfather.

There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.

Of course, parents are the most important people in a child's life.

When does life start? When does it end? Who makes these decisions?... Every day, in hospitals and homes and hospices... people are struggling with those profound issues.

Oh, I've never been asked a silly question in my entire life.

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.