I can't go out with a Republican.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.

We don't understand enough about the Islam religion and Muslim world.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

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.