I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America.

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.

What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.

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

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.