When somebody is flying airplanes into buildings and killing innocent people in the name of God, it makes you question why do they have that interpretation and somebody else has another interpretation, and how many people of Muslim faith would agree with that, and what are the different aspects of different people's religions that is so divisive, rather than being unifying?

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.

Leaders are made by the situations they are involved in. I think that some rise to the occasion and some do not.

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

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

We have to understand where we have strategic relationships that require us to take a different approach. I guess the easiest way to describe it is: different strokes for different folks.