Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.

One of my trips was to meet with the Gulf Cooperation Council with all the Saudi foreign ministers, and when we started the meeting I said 'Perhaps you've noticed that I'm not dressed the same as my predecessors", but no-one had a problem and I was never treated with anything other than respect...So I did not have problems with that, interestingly enough.

There were always jokes about Hillary Clinton channeling Eleanor Roosevelt, but Eleanor Roosevelt was really instrumental at the UN, and would want to meet with various other delegates.

When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

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.