Excerpts from Clinton’s Interview with Fox’s Major Garrett

On a possible run for Vice President:

“I’m not entertaining that either because I am so focused on getting up every morning, doing what I can to try to get the nomination. That’s what I believe I need to do and until the buzzer sounds and there is a nominee, that’s what I’m going to do every day.”

On the superdelegate math:

“Well, the delegate race is still very close. And people forget, superdelegates are not bound to do anything. They don’t have to make a decision. They can wait and watch. They can wait until the convention.  They can change their mind a dozen times between now and the convention.

We’re going to see this through in terms of all of the contests yet to be voted on. We’re going to see what happens when both Michigan and Florida are seated. The number of delegates you have to get is 2,210.”

On changing “goalposts” of her delegate math:

“It’s 2210 including our newly elected Democratic congressman from Mississippi, which was a great victory. The Rules and Bylaws Committee has said they’re going to resolve Michigan and Florida on May 31st. I think that’s exactly what needs to be done. I wish it had been done earlier because we can’t go to a convention and have a nominee only representing 38 states. Especially two states we have to win. The rules were that we wouldn’t compete.”

On the superdelegate count recently shifting in Senator Obama’s favor:

“Well, but this is a numbers calculation. Nobody has the numbers yet. So are we in the last two minutes of a game that you don’t think one or the other can win? You go to the buzzer, maybe it goes into overtime. We don’t know, Major.

And until it’s over, it’s not over. As I said the other night, quoting from an e-mail that a young woman sent me, “it’s not over ’til the lady in the pantsuit says it’s over.” I’m going to compete in these upcoming contests. I’m going to make the case that Michigan and Florida should seat their delegates.

And then we’ll see where we are.”

On speculation Clinton is remaining in the race to act as a “spoiler” for Senator Obama:

“I would say we’re going to have a nominee based on one of us getting to 2,210 delegate votes. That’s what it takes to be the nominee of the Democratic Party. Once that happens, we will close ranks.

I will work my heart out to make sure we elect the Democratic nominee president, because this is not just an exercise in who becomes the nominee, this is supposed to lay the groundwork for us to take back the White House. That is what is most important to me. That is what I’m totally intent upon doing.

But we don’t have a nominee yet. And until we do, I’m going to be making my case.”

On a federal gasoline tax holiday:

“I made my case for it. I don’t have the votes for it. I’m not the president.

If I were the president, I would have the votes for it and we would be working very hard to implement it. So I have supported other people’s ideas. That’s the way the Senate works. Sometimes your ideas are supported, sometimes they’re not.”