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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers a keynote address during the 2014 DreamForce conference on October 14, 2014 in San Francisco. Justin Sullivan, Getty Images
Hillary Clinton is looking forward to casting her first vote for a female presidential candidate, she said Tuesday, though she didn't elaborate on who that might be.
"I've known a lot of the women world leaders, presidents and prime ministers," the former secretary of state said at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. "And I do hope that the United States joins the ranks of those countries that have really overcome that hurdle to gender equality."
Moderator Klaus Schwab, executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, reminded Clinton that he had asked her about the same topic 15 years earlier. She responded in 1999 that she didn't know when a woman would take the country's helm, but was eager for that opportunity to present itself.
"I'll stick with that answer," the all-but-inevitable contender for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination coyly replied Tuesday. "I don't want to make news today."
Clinton nodded to the gathering's theme by tossing an endorsement in favor of net neutrality, but delivered some of her most pointed remarks to date about the state of gridlocked Washington and corrupt media cycles.
"We're far less sexist, far less racist, far less homophobic. We're far more tolerant, but we won't build relationships with people who disagree with us politically," Clinton said of the logjam on Capitol Hill.
Meanwhile, news media only exacerbate the broken state of U.S. politics, she suggested, as they fixate on "the best angle, quickest hit, the biggest embarrassment. ...If you look at how much time used to be spent reporting the news - the real news, not analyzing it, but reporting it - in the 1960s and 1970s compared to now," she went on, "it's dramatically shrunk."
One thing voters aren't likely to see in the "talent" portion of any campaign pageantry involving Clinton? Singing. The former first lady and secretary of state recalled her now-grown-and-married daughter Chelsea's reaction when she used to croon bedtime lullabies: "No sing, mommy."
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Hillary Clinton: Ready for a woman president?
NEW YORK: Bill and Hillary Clinton marked the 10th anniversary of the former president's annual Clinton Global Initiative, pointing to female empowerment around the globe as the former secretary of state considers a 2016 presidential campaign.
The Clintons presided over their yearly gathering of world leaders, corporate executives and philanthropists on Monday, drawing attention to the role of women in leadership positions and opportunities for women and girls around the world.
"We cannot grow the global economy if we do not open the doors to women to participate in the economy," Mrs. Clinton said. "It's been quite exciting to see a lot of the changes that are going on, but it's also been somewhat distressing to see how hard change still is, including in my own country."
The conference theme is called "Reimagining Impact," a notion that might apply to a future presidential candidate. During a conversation on stage with Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank, and IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, the former first lady listened intently as the IBM executive spoke of the importance of constantly seeking transformation.
Bill Clinton, in a separate conversation with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, said the rest of the world often views Latin America as a "real macho place" and might be surprised to learn that Bachelet had won a second term while Brazil is led by a female president, Dilma Rousseff.
Since 2005, the Clintons said their efforts had improved the lives of 430 million people in 180 countries, including giving 44 million children access to a better education. The ex-president said he was glad to be joined by his wife and daughter Chelsea Clinton in the family foundation's pursuits.
Here's a look at other news from the Clinton Global Initiative:
2014 CAMPAIGN: Delving into politics, Hillary Clinton sent out a fundraising appeal Monday on behalf of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, urging activists to help elect House Democrats. Clinton has been stepping up her campaign activity for the party in the weeks before the November elections. Republicans hold a majority in the House and need to pick up six seats to take control of the Senate.
SERVICE YEAR: Chelsea Clinton, who is expecting her first child in the coming weeks, announced the creation of Service Year, a four-year effort to encourage young people between the ages of 18 and 28 to take part in a year of service. The initiative, led by the National Service Alliance, the Cisco Fund at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation and the Lumina Foundation, aims to create 30,000 annual service opportunities by 2017 and 1 million a year by 2023.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Mayors Annise Parker of Houston, Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles and Michael Nutter of Philadelphia announced plans for their cities to address climate change. The cities will develop plans to reduce greenhouse gas, adopt a common way of tracking and reporting emissions and promote ways of participating in cap-and-trade programs like California's system.
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came out in support of net neutrality and an open Internet, in a discussion at a technology conference on Tuesday. Clinton wasa keynote speakerat the Dreamforce technology conference in San Francisco.
I think with all the issues around the Internet, and there are many, about access, affordability, the big digital gap that exists, particularly between women and men, in developing and developed countries, it is absolutely clear to me that we have to keep the Internet open, Clinton said.
She was speaking in a discussion with the founder of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, after delivering her keynote address at the Dreamforce conference organized annually by the Internet company Salesforce.com Inc.
The discussion covered areas including the trade-off that leaders are making between fund-raising and long-term statesmanship, in part, Clinton said, under the intense scrutiny of the media that is constantly looking to expose the biggest embarrassment.
The U.S. and its democratic allies around the world are in a struggle with more authoritarian regimes that want greater control over the Internet to suppress the individual freedoms enshrined in Americas Bill of Rights, she said. Internet Freedom is a core value" in line with other individual freedoms such as freedom of speech and expression, Clinton said.
America has spent time, effort and money in trying to keep the Internet open, and it is an ongoing struggle against more oppressive regimes around the world who want more control over the Internet, want to be able to shut it down at will, want to interfere with peoples freedom, she said, adding:When I was Secretary of State ... it became obvious that individuals, especially those with activist approaches, dissident opinions were increasingly becoming the targets of governments.
Clinton, who is widely expected to become the Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidential elections in 2016 but is yet to formally announce that she will run, parried a question on a woman American president. "I don't want to make any news here," she said.
Clinton also applauded President Barack Obamas stance in favor of net neutrality.
America is trying to figure out how were going to make sure those channels remain open and accessible and how we protect people who are exercising those rights on the Internet from the heavy hand of the governments who oppose them ... partnership between public and private sector is the only way to go forward on it, she said.
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