I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.