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.

The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.

Leaders are made by the situations they are involved in. I think that some rise to the occasion and some do not.

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

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

I am by nature a worried optimist.