U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton dished up a bit of American politics for her audience at a town hall-style forum.

Asked Tuesday how she would feel if former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a Republican, were elected president, Clinton said, "I will not be emigrating."

Then she lamented the seemingly never-ending election cycle in the United States. Clinton told her college audience, "It is part of the American political environment that people are always speculating on who will run for president." The secretary also said, "I've gone through that experience personally, so I'm very well acquainted with it."

Clinton spoke at an all-woman college in Jeddah.