My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.

Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.

When somebody is flying airplanes into buildings and killing innocent people in the name of God, it makes you question why do they have that interpretation and somebody else has another interpretation, and how many people of Muslim faith would agree with that, and what are the different aspects of different people's religions that is so divisive, rather than being unifying?

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

I think the hardest part [is] the priorities. There are an awful lot of things to do [being Secretary of State].

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.