Hillary is asked directly by Wolf Blitzer: What exactly is that experience you keep claiming, anyway? It's the question many have been asking. Her full answer, for posterity, is after the jump.

Well I would go back 35 years, Wolf, because when I first got out of law school I didn't want to go work for a law firm. I wanted to go to work for the Children's Defense Fund, and to work on behalf of abused and neglected kids, and kids with disabilities, and kids who didn't have education or health care. And I really spent a great deal of my early adulthood, you know, bringing people together to help solve the problems of those who were without a voice, and were certainly powerless.

I was honored to be appointed by Pres. Carter to the Legal Services Corporation, which I chaired. And we grew that corporation from a hundred million to 300 million. It is the primary by which people are given access to our courts when they have civil problems that need to be taken care of.

You know, I've run projects that provided aid for prisoners in prisons, I helped to reform the education system in Arkansas and expand rural healthcare. And I've had a lot of varied experiences both in the private sector as well as the public and the not-for-profit sector. And certainly during those 8 years that I was priveledged to be in the White House, I had a great deal of responsibility that was given to me to not only work on domestic issues like healthcare.

And when we weren't successful on universal healthcare, I just turned around and said, "Well, we're gonna get the Children's Health Insurance Program." And I'm so proud we do, because now 6 million children around the country every month get health care.

And I took on the drug companies to make sure that they would test drugs to see if they were safe and effective for our kids, and began to change the adoption and foster care system. Here in California, because of the Adoption and Safe Families Act, we have three times more children being adopted out of foster care.

And certainly the work that I was able to do around the world, going to more than 82 countries, negotiating with governments like Macedonia to open their borders again, to let Kosovar refugees in, speaking on behalf of women's rights as human rights in Beijing, to send a message across the world that this is critical to who we are as Americans. And to go to the Senate and to begin to work across the party lines with people who honestly thought they would never work with me.

But I believe public service is a trust. And I get up every day trying to make change in people's lives. And today we have 20,000 National Guard and Reserve members in California who have access to healthcare because I teamed up with Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina to get that done. Really positive change in people's lives, in real ways, that I am very proud of.