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

I consider it my patriotic duty as an ordinary citizen - not as Secretary of State - to ask questions. I think we have to ask ourselves the tough questions.

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.

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.

Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.

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

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.