Being Gay Is Not A Western Invention.

Despite Our Founding Principles And The Many Ways Our Constitution Has Protected Individual Liberties, We Do, Let's Admit It, Have A Long History Of Shutting People Out--african Americans, Women, Gays And Lesbians, People With Disabilities--and Throughout Our History, We Have Found Too Many Ways To Divide And Exclude People From Their Ownership Of The Law And Protection Under The Law.

I Fought All My Life For Women To Make Their Own Choices, In Their Personal And Professional Lives. I Made Mine.

I Think The World Would Be A Lot Better Off If More People Were To Define Themselves In Terms Of Their Own Standards And Values And Not What Other People Said Or Thought About Them.

There's A Lot That The Majority, A Big Majority Of The American People Want To See Us Do And I'm Very Excited About That Work. I Think The Democratic Party Has A Record Of Being Better For The Economy When We Hold The White House.

From Her Concession Speech: Although We Weren't Able To Shatter That Highest, Hardest Glass Ceiling This Time, Thanks To You, It's Got About 18 Million Cracks In It...you Can Be So Proud That, From Now On, It Will Be Unremarkable For A Woman To Win Primary State Victories, Unremarkable To Have A Woman In A Close Race To Be Our Nominee, Unremarkable To Think That A Woman Can Be The President Of The United States. And That Is Truly Remarkable.