"We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally."

"On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means."

"I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position."

"Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have."

"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."

"Well, I will be a president for Democrats, Republicans and independents, for the struggling, the striving, the successful, for all those who vote for me and for those who don't. For all Americans together."

"But I can tell you another engine for growth and job creation would be comprehensive immigration reform."

"I am repeating the facts and the facts are I did not send nor did I receive material marked classified."

"I don't think it's at all weakening of the system if people with the same last name put themselves forward to the electorate, when their experiences, their character, and in my case, gender, may be different."

"I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies."

"There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore."

"When it comes to the Middle East, this is always a very difficult issue for any American president."

"I would be delighted if the United States could have a positive relationship with Russia, and I would be thrilled if the Russian people, who are so capable, had a normal country that they could chart a different future."

"Everybody feels they have been trespassed upon, and nearly everybody has trespassed on somebody else, maybe not intentionally."

"Hamas, we know, embeds missiles, embeds command-and-control units in civilian areas."

"Hamas, we know, embeds missiles, embeds command-and-control units in civilian areas."

"I was not going to attack Palin just for being a woman appealing for support from other women."

"Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do."

"I think I'm very hardheaded."

"You're not a leader if you haven't been elected."

"'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in."

"The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don't want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon."

"I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties."

"The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to protect that."

"I meet with people all day long."

"I won the youth vote in Massachusetts and in California. I did very well with it in Ohio."

"There is a hunger for the United States to be present again."

"Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom."

"I had a personal email when I was in the Senate, as the vast majority of senators do. It was very convenient. I did all of my business on personal emails."

"Remember, before they called it Obamacare, they called it Hillarycare."

"One of the great things about my mother is she really valued people's character more than what they did."

"Hard men present hard choices - none more so than Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia."

"I have been working or attending school full time since I was 13."

"When you're down on yourself, and when you are hunkering down and pulling back, you're not going to make any better decisions than when you were aggressively, belligerently putting yourself forward."

"I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President."

"I have to defend my husband."

"A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one."

"I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president."

"There is no formula that I'm aware of for being a successful or fulfilled woman today."

"When I was growing up, my parents always told me that I had to do what I thought was right and not listen to other people. That was hard for me."

"I mean, I'm a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can."

"It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back."

"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."

"I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office."

"Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality."

"You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you."

"We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces."

"If you can't compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries."

"If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk."

"I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists."