"Uhh . . . I really see . . . umm . . . that was good . . . [to the audience] that's why he [the questioner] wins prizes . . . i . . . I . . . I . . . see my role as Secretary, and in fact leadership in general, in a democracy, as, uh, uh, a relay race.
"You run the best race you can run and you hand off the baton and some of what hasn't been finished may go on to be finished, so when President Obama asked me to be Secretary of State and I . . . um . . . agreed, we had the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We had two wars. We had continuing . . . um . . . threats from all kinds of corners around the world that we had to deal with, so it was a perilous time, frankly.
"And what he said to me what . . . uh. . . I . . . I . . . uh . . . I, ah, have to be dealing with the economic crisis, I want you to go out and, ah, represent us around the world.
"And it was a good division of labor because we needed to make it clear to the rest of the world that we were going to get our house in order, we were going to stimulate and grow and get back to positive growth and work with our friends and partners.
"So I think we did, I think we did that, and I'm very proud that out of the stabilization and, you know, really solid leadership that the administration provided that I think now leads us to be able to deal with problems like the Ukraine. Because we're not so worried about, uh, collapse in Europe and in China trying to figure out what to do with their bond holdings and all the problems we were obsessed with.
"I think we really restored American leadership in the best sense, that, uh, once again people began to rely on us, to look at us, as, uh, setting the values and setting the standards. I just don't want to lose that, because we have a, um, dysfunctional political situation in Washington. And then, of course a lot of particulars. but I am finishing my book if you want to read all about it.