Hillary Clinton

A nuclear-armed Iran is not acceptable to the United States.

It is vital that the START Treaty with Russia be renewed.

It is a terrible humanitarian crisis, compounded by a corrupt and very cruel regime in Khartoum.

I will do my very best to elevate this issue, to give you the kind of expertise within the State Department that will give you comfort that we're going to make this a high priority.

Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Middle East, remain in the forefront of the challenges that the new administration will face.

I look forward to implementing President Obama's vision and ensuring that the United States remains a leader in efforts to help all girls and boys access quality basic education.

There's been a number of consultations about piracy.

It's one of the reasons why the President-elect has talked about an energy partnership for Latin America.

We're going to try to break that down.

To permit contact, to release him, to make it clear that there is a new attitude in Iran, as we believe there will be with the Obama administration toward engagement, carefully constructed, and with very clear outcomes attempted.

I look forward to working with you toward not only being able to define that but also being able to define some sort of an achievable endpoint to our presence in Afghanistan.

The specific role the administration would play in helping Israel and the Palestinians reach agreements, including on final status issues, would very much be determined as an outgrowth of consultations with the parties.

our goal will be to do everything we can pursue, through diplomacy, through the use of sanctions, through creating better coalitions

The President-elect has been very clear that it is unacceptable; and that is our premise, and that is what we are going to be basing our actions on.

[W]hen I become President, Bill Clinton, my dear husband, will be one of the people who will be sent around the world as a roving ambassador to make it very clear to the rest of the world that we're back to a policy of reaching out and…

The President-elect is in favor of free and fair trade. He wants to figure out how trade becomes more of a win-win for our manufacturers, our businesses, you know, our citizens.

There's no other word for it really at this point, but I think with the right kind of leadership that we can mitigate a lot of the tensions in that area and work toward a different situation.

President-elect Obama and I seek a future of cooperative engagement with the Russian Government on matters of strategic importance while standing strongly for American values and international norms.

we are going to be stronger if we are better able to promote diplomacy and development, not just rely on our military power.

Our greatest tool in advancing democracy is our own example.

All contributors will be disclosed and all contributors to the Clinton Global Initiative are disclosed in public as of now anyway.

Well, Senator Lugar, I don't think there is a more important issue that confronts the incoming administration.

I share the President-elect's view that the activities of the Clinton Foundation and President Clinton himself should not be a barrier to Senator Clinton's service.

if we don't enhance our diplomatic and development efforts, and move toward more equilibrium, we will not be as successful as we need to be in promoting our foreign policy.

If confirmed as Secretary of State, I will continue to press the Turkish authorities to further this progress by ending legal action against citizens for expressing their views.