I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I talk a great deal to prior Secretaries of State about policy issues.
One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
I can give substantive advice to the administration, the president's campaign, or any campaign that would ask for it. And, of course, when I speak I can talk about my views on policy and I have been supportive of the president's policy on leading foreign-policy issues.
I've been in politics now for long enough to not worry about what others are saying, but instead to talk about what I believe.
If you want to persuade people, you've got to talk with your heart. You've got to talk about why your policies matter to them.
I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts.
When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.
When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.