I have very set and consistent principles, but I am flexible on tactics. I like to get the job done.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

The process of education in the oldest profession in the world is like any other educational process, in that it requires time andeffort and patience; it can only be acquired by taking one step at a time, though the steps become accelerated after the first few.

No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.

If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

History is written backwards but lived forwards.