Well, it's potentially history-making. It's very exciting, and it's humbling to have this responsibility, at the prospect of becoming the first woman president in our nation's history.

In so many ways, this all-women's college prepared me to compete in the all-boys club of presidential politics.

But I know that, in a campaign where people are trying to score political points, and I am ahead, I'm going to be attacked. That's what happens in campaigns. I don't have any problem with that.

I am not running because I'm a woman. I'm running because I think I'm the best qualified and experienced person to hit the ground running in January 2009.

It's potentially history-making. It's very exciting, and it's humbling to have this responsibility, at the prospect of becoming the first woman president in our nation's history.

We've had a bunch of debates, and you know, I wouldn't rank that up on my very top list.

But I know that in a campaign where people are trying to score political points, and I am ahead, I'm going to be attacked. That's what happens in campaigns. I don't have any problem with that.

I wasn't at my best the other night.

And we are certainly not getting our money's worth there, in fact, just the opposite. And I don't see how we actually end up fighting terrorists, if our money is going simply to prop up somebody who has become very, very dictatorial and…

I think it would not be something where the next vice president is going to have all that much input. And I don't want to, you know -- I'm not looking for a ceremonial post.

I've always believed that you can only bring about real change when people come together across party lines.

If you can't bring people together across the old fault lines, you simply aren't going to be able to make progress on the challenges we face.

The only mission ever accomplished was using fear and falsehoods to take us to a war that should've never been authorized and never been waged.

I will raise our fuel standards, and put a cap on carbon emissions to reduce then 80% by 2050.

I believe that our party has made the most difference in people's lives and the life of this country when we have led not by polls but by principle; not by calculation but by conviction.

I will end the tax giveaways to companies that ship our jobs overseas.

When I am President, I will end this war in Iraq.

For the first time in a long time, the name George Bush will not appear on the ballot.