When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.

John Kerry knows more about more subjects than an awful lot of people. But I think it's a very hard job [Secretary of State].

I can't go out with a Republican.

I am the only high-ranking U.S. official to ever meet with Kim Jong-il, and we are the same height and both wear high heels.

I went to a girls high school and I went to a women's college and when I first started teaching at Georgetown it had been a single sex school and so they wanted to have some women professors when they went co-ed, and so I originally was hired to start a program there, and really encourage women to go into foreign policy. I always have done that, and I really do think that things are better when women are involved.

My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.

I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.