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

Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

We have the most generous immigration policy, but what is a concern is when illegal immigrants come and undermine a variety of the systems that work in order to make our society function.

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East.