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

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.

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

Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.