Mr. President, we've taken off our "Kick Me" sign.

I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.

For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.