If there's nobody in your way, you're not going anywhere.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.

I am such a political person.

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.