I want to take some of the ideas that worked when my husband was president, and we ended up with 23 million new jobs and incomes went up for everybody.

Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, a guide and pillar of stability for many of our people.

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.

I really do hope that we have a woman president in my lifetime.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard.

I have to confess that it's crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian.

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.

I can't claim to be disenchanted "with the current state of fiction" because I read so little of it. My reading is mostly drawn to history.

On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way.

A split second can ruin or boost the sequence.

What you get will never make you happy; who you become will make you very happy or very sad.

Think about the decade after Iraq, not just the day after.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

It's not the world wide web. It's the women wide web.