For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

We have to understand where we have strategic relationships that require us to take a different approach. I guess the easiest way to describe it is: different strokes for different folks.

When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

I never dreamed about one day becoming Secretary of State. It's not that I was modest; it's just that I had never seen a Secretary of State in a skirt.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.