I've found my place in life, that I'm passionate about, my talents and my passion have merged, and I'm trying to do the best that I can.

As I was telling my husb — As I was telling President Bush.

I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn't have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.

Multilateral diplomacy is hard. It's slower, it's tougher, it's a bigger slog. I've learned that sometimes the things you'd most like to do something about, you really have difficulty unless the international community really mobilizes.

Our effort to build stability through authoritarians in the Middle East for 60 years had given us neither democracy nor stability.

The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

Prejudice and bigotry are brought down...by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice define the parameters of the possible.