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.

Bill Clinton valued my opinion and always made sure that my views were heard, and people knew that he wanted me to talk.

The bottom line is, the more we have a cadre of women moving up the scale, and it doesn't seem threatening, and people realize that women actually work much harder than men, and realize that they need more women in these jobs, I think that goes away.

Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth.

We have to understand where we have strategic relationships that require us to take a different approach. I guess the easiest way to describe it is: different strokes for different folks.

A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.

When somebody is flying airplanes into buildings and killing innocent people in the name of God, it makes you question why do they have that interpretation and somebody else has another interpretation, and how many people of Muslim faith would agree with that, and what are the different aspects of different people's religions that is so divisive, rather than being unifying?