As a child, I really did see buildings bombed, and what makes me different from an American that's the same age as I am is that I can understand what happens when there is fighting in a way that they couldn't.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.

I am the only high-ranking U.S. official to ever meet with Kim Jong-il, and we are the same height and both wear high heels.

I am such a political person.

I got married, I really waited a long time - three days after I graduated.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.