I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.

The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq.

I had more problems with the men in our own government, and not because they were male chauvinistic pigs but because they had known me for so long. I might have been a carpool mother and a friend of their wife, and so they'd been to my house for dinner and things like and they thought 'how did she get to be secretary of state when I should be secretary of state?' So that was more of a problem.

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.

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

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.