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

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in terms of understanding hard science for people who are studying climate change, or people who are interested in health policy or food security, or people who care about education.

There were always jokes about Hillary Clinton channeling Eleanor Roosevelt, but Eleanor Roosevelt was really instrumental at the UN, and would want to meet with various other delegates.

I went to a girls high school and I went to a women's college and when I first started teaching at Georgetown it had been a single sex school and so they wanted to have some women professors when they went co-ed, and so I originally was hired to start a program there, and really encourage women to go into foreign policy. I always have done that, and I really do think that things are better when women are involved.

We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.

The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think men do that particularly.