I can't go out with a Republican.

We must be authors of the history of our age.

When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.

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

I went to a girls high school and I went to a women's college and when I first started teaching at Georgetown it had been a single sex school and so they wanted to have some women professors when they went co-ed, and so I originally was hired to start a program there, and really encourage women to go into foreign policy. I always have done that, and I really do think that things are better when women are involved.

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.