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

There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess.

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

If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

I went to a girls high school and I went to a women's college and when I first started teaching at Georgetown it had been a single sex school and so they wanted to have some women professors when they went co-ed, and so I originally was hired to start a program there, and really encourage women to go into foreign policy. I always have done that, and I really do think that things are better when women are involved.

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.