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

I was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U.S.] secretary of state of the 21st century. I was the first secretary of state to own a Web site, to visit Internet cafes, and to make Internet access a part of policy.

We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

China is in its own category - too big to ignore, too repressive to embrace, difficult to influence, and very, very proud.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.