I had more problems with the men in our own government, and not because they were male chauvinistic pigs but because they had known me for so long. I might have been a carpool mother and a friend of their wife, and so they'd been to my house for dinner and things like and they thought 'how did she get to be secretary of state when I should be secretary of state?' So that was more of a problem.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.

There's nobody who's had a resume like [Hillary Clinton] that's run for president.

I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

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

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.