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 hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.

I think the hardest part [is] the priorities. There are an awful lot of things to do [being Secretary of State].

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

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.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.