The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.

In A Man With a Pipe, my brother observed that although my father had been seen as intellectual and my mother more a creature of temperament, she had often been the more levelheaded of the two. In sum, we miss them as we love them, equally and always.

The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.