The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq.

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

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

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