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.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women.

Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America.

We have the most generous immigration policy, but what is a concern is when illegal immigrants come and undermine a variety of the systems that work in order to make our society function.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.