No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.

I'm a problem-solver.

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

We went to the same college so I know [Hillary Clinton's] study habits, but when she was first lady of Arkansas, she did a lot of things already for children, and she was head of the Children's Defense Fund, and that's how I first heard her or met her, she was very very involved in really a very important social program to do something about children and women and education.

I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.

I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.

I get up every morning and I'm grateful for everything that has happened. I go through my list about being grateful for my children and grandchildren, and for the really remarkable life that I have been able to have.