I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.

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

Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

We have to understand where we have strategic relationships that require us to take a different approach. I guess the easiest way to describe it is: different strokes for different folks.