I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist who worries a lot.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.

I am such a political person.

Bill Clinton valued my opinion and always made sure that my views were heard, and people knew that he wanted me to talk.

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

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

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.