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

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

To put it mildly, the world is a mess.

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'

I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.

I do think that she [Hillary Clinton] will prove that she's the best, whether she's in the White House or somewhere else. I think it will very much be a historic moment, when we are able to say that we actually have done something like put a woman in the White House. Its very interesting to think about considering its taken us long as it has.

I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.