As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

Women have to work exceptionally hard.

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

I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.

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.

Today, I say that no nation in the world need be left out of the global system we are constructing.

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.