Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

John Kerry knows more about more subjects than an awful lot of people. But I think it's a very hard job [Secretary of State].

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

Today, I say that no nation in the world need be left out of the global system we are constructing.

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

The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.