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

The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

I have very set and consistent principles, but I am flexible on tactics. I like to get the job done.

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

I never dreamed about one day becoming Secretary of State. It's not that I was modest; it's just that I had never seen a Secretary of State in a skirt.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

We went to the same college so I know [Hillary Clinton's] study habits, but when she was first lady of Arkansas, she did a lot of things already for children, and she was head of the Children's Defense Fund, and that's how I first heard her or met her, she was very very involved in really a very important social program to do something about children and women and education.