Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

The cover-up, more than the initial wrongdoing, is what is most likely to bring you down.

No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.

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.

I am by nature a worried optimist.

Women are more than 50% of almost every country in the world. Countries rob themselves of the resources of women if they keep them as property. It isn't that women can't find work. It's just that women don't get paid for their work and are not recognized properly. It's something that has to be on the international agenda all the time.