I teach at Georgetown, and I see that the students have so many different interests. The main thing is to match your passion with your knowledge, because you can't just be passionate without knowing the facts, and facts are really boring without passion.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.

There were always jokes about Hillary Clinton channeling Eleanor Roosevelt, but Eleanor Roosevelt was really instrumental at the UN, and would want to meet with various other delegates.

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

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.

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'.