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

One of my trips was to meet with the Gulf Cooperation Council with all the Saudi foreign ministers, and when we started the meeting I said 'Perhaps you've noticed that I'm not dressed the same as my predecessors", but no-one had a problem and I was never treated with anything other than respect...So I did not have problems with that, interestingly enough.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.

We don't understand enough about the Islam religion and Muslim world.

Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.

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

The interesting part is, that being the United States Secretary of State, most places I went didn't have a problem with me being a woman, because I was representing the United States.