After the Cold War, to rally the American people to understand that we had to be a part of solutions. It's one thing to say that we have to run everything, it's another to say we don't want anything to do with it.

I felt that America's duty was not to try to do everything itself, but to foster a sense of commitment that would bring out the best in every country.

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].

I am such a political person.

The interesting part is, that being the United States Secretary of State, most places I went didn't have a problem with me being a woman, because I was representing the United States.

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.

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.