I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

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

Bill Clinton valued my opinion and always made sure that my views were heard, and people knew that he wanted me to talk.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.