I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

We have the most generous immigration policy, but what is a concern is when illegal immigrants come and undermine a variety of the systems that work in order to make our society function.

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that.

If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle with the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expected or hoped to see than on what was really there.

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.