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

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.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

In terms intellectually, [what] shaped my life was the whole Munich thing [the Munich Agreement] that I knew about all my life, in terms of how large powers make decisions that affect small countries, and the unintended consequences of that. The other part is I knew about the Holocaust. l just didn't know that it applied to my family. But that did affect the way I thought about what I was seeing as ethnic cleansing in the Balkans; there's no question about that.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.