"There's a certain consistency to who I am and what I do, and I think people have finally said, 'Well, you know, I kinda get her now.' I've actually had people say that to me."

"I've always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there."

"I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made."

"The safe haven that al-Qaida has found in Pakistan is very troubling."

"I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service."

"China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world, Russia is, Al Jazeera. And the BBC is cutting back on its many language services around the world."

"I helped to restore America's leadership."

"I believe in transparency."

"When my hair was shorter, I used to get it done every couple of days... but I got tired of that."

"The truth is, through all these years of public service, the 'service' part has always come easier to me than the 'public' part."

"When women participate in peace-making and peace-keeping, we are all safer and more secure."

"Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses create jobs. You know that old theory, 'trickle-down economics.' That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly."

"I have won elections and I have lost elections."

"Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions."

"As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics."

"I'll get involved in philanthropy."

"I'm too old to be a yuppie."

"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."

"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."

"The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful."

"People have to stop employing illegal immigrants."

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

"Now, look, I - I like to look at evidence. I plead to that. I think evidence is important when you're making decisions that affect other people's lives."

"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."

"Our country's motto is e pluribus unum: out of many, we are one. Will we stay true to that motto?"

"Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?"

"I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow."

"I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them."

"I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will."

"Putin is playing the long game. He has a strategic plan in mind: the Eurasian Union, which would be in competition to Europe."

"Everybody has some dysfunction in their families."

"It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided."

"I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine."

"I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel."

"I've spent so many years commuting, I kind of prefer a home office."

"I feel like every day, every minute I have to make the most of."

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

"To me you cannot be fully human, fully civilised, unless you recognise humanity in everyone."

"Today we voted as Democrats and Republicans. Tomorrow we begin again as New Yorkers."

"Women standing up for each other is critically important."

"It became clear to me that simply caring is not enough. To drive real progress, you have to change both hearts and laws. You need both understanding and action."

"I am not "going to comment on what I did or did not "say back in the late '90s."

"Look at climate change; don't put your head in the sand. Understand that it is going to have profound effects on our resources and so much else."

"I love New York."

"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."

"Dynamism is a function of change."

"I don't think about a legacy; I think about my life, because I've had quite an unpredictable life."

"There's no day that is the same as the day before. So you have to be energized; you have to be focused."

"We need more good jobs that reward hard work with rising wages, dignity, and a ladder to a better life."

"I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available."