Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

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'.

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

The world would be entirely different if it were run by women. I think it is true that we are more seeking consensus and don't have such big egos and have a variety of different ways of trying to get along. But anybody who says that the world would be better has forgotten high school. It depends on who the women are.

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.