I consider it my patriotic duty as an ordinary citizen - not as Secretary of State - to ask questions. I think we have to ask ourselves the tough questions.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

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 think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

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

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.