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

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

I am such a political person.

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 think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

I am by nature a worried optimist.