I think that the Middle East is the largest piece of unfinished business that we all have. I happen to believe in the democratization process.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.

I never dreamed about one day becoming Secretary of State. It's not that I was modest; it's just that I had never seen a Secretary of State in a skirt.

The Framework Agreement is one of the best things the [Clinton] Administration has done because it stopped a nuclear weapons program in North Korea.

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

People didn't think that a woman could be the Secretary of State, when my name was out there...but then the Arab Ambassadors at the UN said 'We have no problem dealing with Ambassador Albright, and we would have no problem dealing with Secretary Albright.'

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.