Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.

I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building.

We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.

In diplomacy, clear-cut wins and losses are rare.

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

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.