I would say I have compassion.

I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, 'Do what I do.' I think it's a little pretentious to say, 'I'm a role model'; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way.

I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.

I am really cautious about what I say and do.

As Walter Cronkite would say, that's the way it is.

I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister.