My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

The interesting part is, that being the United States Secretary of State, most places I went didn't have a problem with me being a woman, because I was representing the United States.

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'

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

Today, I say that no nation in the world need be left out of the global system we are constructing.

A great task has been completed and an even larger one remains.

Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in terms of understanding hard science for people who are studying climate change, or people who are interested in health policy or food security, or people who care about education.