"It's fair to say that the Republicans were the party of ideas for a pretty long chunk of time there over the last 10 to 15 years."

“Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States. I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort.”

"I really had to dig down deep and think hard about what was right for me, what was right for my family. I never doubted Bill's love for me, ever, and I never doubted my faith and my commitment to our daughter and our extended family. But I had to decide what I ought to do, I think it is so important to be able to hear yourself at a moment when it is hard ... there are so many times when you really have to listen to yourself."

“The American people don’t want a president whose plans change with the politics of the moment.”

“Saying Senator Clinton got where she's got simply because her husband did what he did to her is just as callous [as attributing Sen. John McCain’s political success to his experience in the Vietnam War], and I can see now, came across just as nasty -- worse yet, just as dismissive.”