I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.

One of the things I write about a bit in my Madam Secretary memoir is on Rwanda, where I was an instructed ambassador at the U.N., and my instructions were to not vote for increased forces there, and I didn't like my instructions. So I got up and called Washington and said, "Change my instructions," and they didn't.

The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

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.

Leaders are made by the situations they are involved in. I think that some rise to the occasion and some do not.