My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.

Today, I say that no nation in the world need be left out of the global system we are constructing.

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.

I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder . . . Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.