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.Collection: Space
Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace - all we need is a fighting chance.Collection: Peace
Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.Collection: Gardening
In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.Collection: Religion
I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.Collection: Home
Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.Collection: Women
If you believe you can make a difference, not just in politics, in public service, in advocacy around all these important issues, then you have to be prepared to accept that you are not going to get 100 percent approval.Collection: Politics
You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.Collection: Health
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.Collection: Communication
I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.Collection: Funny
There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.Collection: Positive
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.Collection: Freedom
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.Collection: Courage
I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.Collection: Travel
It's impossible to know what happens in the fog of war.Collection: War
Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.Collection: Marriage
Everyone can change.Collection: Change
I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.Collection: Marriage
Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.Collection: Anger
If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.Collection: Change
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.Collection: Hope
I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.Collection: Business
I helped to restore America's leadership.Collection: Leadership
Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.Collection: Freedom
In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.Collection: Intelligence
I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.Collection: Amazing
In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.Collection: Women
I am 100% in the camp that says forgiveness is mostly about the forgiver.Collection: Forgiveness
The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.Collection: Peace
No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.Collection: Alone
You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.Collection: Love
Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called 'It Takes a Village.' And a lot of people looked at the title and asked, 'What the heck do you mean by that?' This is what I mean. None of us can raise a family, build a business, heal a community or lift a country totally alone.Collection: Alone
I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.Collection: Politics
One of the reasons this election is so important is because the Supreme Court hangs in the balance. We need to overturn that terrible Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, and then reform our whole campaign finance system.Collection: Finance
Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.Collection: Forgiveness
I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.Collection: Health
In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.Collection: Forgiveness
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.Collection: Finance
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.Collection: Education
America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.Collection: Friendship
We are a country where people of all backgrounds, all nations of origin, all languages, all religions, all races, can make a home. America was built by immigrants.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Respect
I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.Collection: Wisdom
A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not only of the region but beyond.
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.'