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.

After the Cold War, to rally the American people to understand that we had to be a part of solutions. It's one thing to say that we have to run everything, it's another to say we don't want anything to do with it.

Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

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

We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.

We are very hip on the fact that America's always No. 1. On this we are not, in terms of the number of women in our legislative branches and obviously as head of state. We need to push on that. I hate to say this: It isn't all men's fault. I think some of it is our own attitude and approach. Some of it very healthy, that women want to make choices about their lives and how they want to spend their time, and what they value.