I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.

Leaders are made by the situations they are involved in. I think that some rise to the occasion and some do not.

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.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

What's the point of having this superb military you're always talking about if we can't use it?