I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.

Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.

My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.

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.

The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.

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.