Hillary Clinton

The American people deserve to know answers, and they certainly do not deserve false answers.

I instructed our senior Department officials and our diplomatic security personnel to consider every option.

The United States must continue to lead . . . in the Middle East and all around the globe.

Our security professionals get it right 99 percent of the time, against difficult odds all over the world.

I was aware of the ones that were brought to my attention. They were part of our ongoing discussion about the deteriorating threat environment in eastern Libya.

I now think we need to pay much more attention to AFRICOM, to its capacity inside Africa.

For me, this is not just a matter of policy . . . it's personal.

America's values and vital national security interests are at stake.

When America is absent, especially from unstable environments, there are consequences.

The United States is the most extraordinary force for peace and progress the world has ever known.

Heavily armed militants assaulted our compound

It was a terrorist attack. I called it an attack by heavily armed militants.

The very next morning, I told the American people that 'heavily armed militants assaulted our compound' and vowed to bring them to justice.

Let's stay focused on what really matters: protecting our people and the country we all love.

It is our responsibility to make sure they have the resources they need to do their jobs.

I feel again the honor it is to represent the world's indispensible nation.

It has been one of the great honors of my life to lead the men and women of the State Department and USAID.

I take responsibility, and nobody is more committed to getting this right.

We cannot afford to retreat now.

Benghazi joins a long list of tragedies, for our Department and for other agencies.

It was very disappointing to me that the ARB concluded there were inadequacies and problems in the responsiveness of our team here in Washington to the security requests that were made by our team in Libya.

I think it is important, though, and I would urge----

Well, I think surveillance video, which some of you may have seen in a classified setting, does demonstrate what happened that night.

We should never forget that the security professionals get it right more than 99 percent of the time, against difficult odds.

Any clear-eyed examination of this matter must begin with this sobering fact: Since 1988, there have been 19 Accountability Review Boards investigating attacks on American diplomats.