You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'

I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

I went to a girls high school and I went to a women's college and when I first started teaching at Georgetown it had been a single sex school and so they wanted to have some women professors when they went co-ed, and so I originally was hired to start a program there, and really encourage women to go into foreign policy. I always have done that, and I really do think that things are better when women are involved.