I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

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

In terms intellectually, [what] shaped my life was the whole Munich thing [the Munich Agreement] that I knew about all my life, in terms of how large powers make decisions that affect small countries, and the unintended consequences of that. The other part is I knew about the Holocaust. l just didn't know that it applied to my family. But that did affect the way I thought about what I was seeing as ethnic cleansing in the Balkans; there's no question about that.

There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess.

We don't understand enough about the Islam religion and Muslim world.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.