I get up every morning and I'm grateful for everything that has happened. I go through my list about being grateful for my children and grandchildren, and for the really remarkable life that I have been able to have.

I've never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

[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.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.

Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.