I had been working on a second book with [David] Petraeus called Relentless. Obviously that book and the income that it would have generated went away.

We have to raise our young boys to respect women and our young girls to demand respect and to get their values from something other than their physicality.

I'm not in love with David Petraeus. But I think he does present a terrific role model.

I haven't had senators advocating for me.

As an intelligence officer, if you don't have a security clearance, you really don't have a job. My military position was, and has been, frozen, for four years.

If I'm strong, I'm not going to apologize for being strong.

When I fell, some people were in such shock that they didn't reach out. They were so mad at me, rather than having compassion for what happened. I lost a lot of friends.

[My kids] were very young at the time and didn't realize what was going on. We told them that mom made a mistake and people want to talk about it in the news so they're outside our house.

I think the public doesn't understand that one of the reasons I haven't stood up for myself is because in order to do that, I have to stoop to a level that further humiliates other people.

It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress].

I was an academic and I lost my assignment at Harvard. Meanwhile, [David Petraeus] gets invited to Harvard to become a fellow.

To become successful, you have to let go of something to get something else of greater value.

Be kind to people and don’t judge, for you do not know what demons they carry and what battles they are fighting.

Will doesn't have to be struggle!

You maybe able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

It's very heartening to see people who I used to do music with still doing it.

Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, a shadow on those features fair and thin. And softly, from the hushed and darkened room, two angels issued, where but one went in.

Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.

There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.

I've been on the tour for many, many years. It's time for me to go now, before it's too late.

Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal affairs.