It is an unfortunate fact that in many parts of the world women are considered property. An awful lot of injustice is obviously due to that; not just women's status in the home, but all kinds of laws that are even more discriminating.

There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women.

Obviously Iran is a very large problem. It's hard to decide what the number one issue [is], but that is a very threatening problem.

So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.

Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.

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