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No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.
I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.
Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.
I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.
I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.
There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.
In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.
I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.
I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.
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.
If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.
The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.
In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
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.
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.
Dynamism is a function of change.
On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.
I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.
No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.
There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.
I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.
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.
You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.
In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.
You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.
In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.
Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.
There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.
Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.
I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.
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.
The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.
My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.
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.
Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.
I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.
Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.
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.
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.
The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to protect that.
There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
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.
I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.
You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.
I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.
Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.
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.
This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.
I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.
Now, I know there are many Americans who say, 'Get out of Afghanistan. Bring 'em all home.' And there are others who say, 'Put in hundreds of thousands of more.'
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.
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.
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