What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

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.

What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.

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.