What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

I have certain issues. I support women candidates, but I cannot support a woman that I don't believe in. I would prefer to vote for a man who believes in choice than a woman who is pro-life. We have to be able to make distinctions and not look as though we are not feminist enough if we don't support every woman. We need to have that kind of a choice.

Today, I say that no nation in the world need be left out of the global system we are constructing.

Leaders are made by the situations they are involved in. I think that some rise to the occasion and some do not.

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

[John Kerry] actually stole my line because when I became Secretary of State, I said, 'I hope my heels will fill Warren Christopher's shoes.' So he reversed that.