Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

We must be authors of the history of our age.

There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.

The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq.

I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

One of the things I write about a bit in my Madam Secretary memoir is on Rwanda, where I was an instructed ambassador at the U.N., and my instructions were to not vote for increased forces there, and I didn't like my instructions. So I got up and called Washington and said, "Change my instructions," and they didn't.

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.