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

I am by nature a worried optimist.

I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.

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.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and profound than any party affiliation.

If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.