Clinton Stumped on Her Top Accomplishment as Secretary of State

BLITZER: “You certainly did take a lot of fire from the Republicans at the CNN debate last night. I assume you watched it, especially from the lone female candidate up on the stage, Carly Fiorina. She said if you want to stump a Democrat, she said, ask them about Hillary Clinton’s accomplishments as secretary of state. If you were on that debate stage with her, what would you say was your No. 1 accomplishment as secretary of state?”
CLINTON: “You know, Wolf, I didn’t get to see all of their debate, but I saw enough of it to know that this is just the usual back and forth political attacks, the kinds of things you say when you’re on a debate stage and you really don’t have much else to say. I didn’t hear anything from any of them about how they’re going to make college more affordable or get down student debt, or get equal pay for equal work for women, what they’re going to do to make sure that we deal with the challenges of raising incomes for hardworking people. So I don’t really pay a lot of attention to this kind of rhetoric that heats up the debate stage. They’re all trying to vie for more attention from, obviously, the Republican Party. I’m going to let them decide how best to do it. But if anybody is interested, you know, there’s a long list about what I have done, and I’m very proud of it. You can read my book, ‘Hard Choices,’ read about how I negotiated a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. You can read about how I put together the coalition that led to international sanctions against Iran. You can read about what I did when I was first lady to get the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or as senator, working across the aisle on issues like getting better health care for our veterans. You know, this is just the silly season. I am looking forward to eventually debating on that stage whoever they finally nominate once they get around to doing that.”