I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.

I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.

I am by nature a worried optimist.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.