I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.

Obviously Iran is a very large problem. It's hard to decide what the number one issue [is], but that is a very threatening problem.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

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