There are some places that have had real quarrels with the United States' policies, but I think the country is very well-respected worldwide.

It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked with them, and I learned a lot about them that I hadn't known.

America is a country that went through an extremely difficult set of circumstances out of 9/11. And we've survived it as a country, and I think we've survived it as one people. And we all ought to be concentrating on trying to make sure that we move forward as one people out of that terrible experience.

Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

The best armor against everything around you is to be well educated, to work hard, to be twice as good as if you had to be, to do languages and culture better.

Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.

I'm a terrible long-term planner.