Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.

If there's nobody in your way, you're not going anywhere.

I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that.

In diplomacy, clear-cut wins and losses are rare.

I think the jobs [at the top] are unbelievably difficult, and there is nothing easier than second-guessing people.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.

My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.