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.

Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.

I had more problems with the men in our own government, and not because they were male chauvinistic pigs but because they had known me for so long. I might have been a carpool mother and a friend of their wife, and so they'd been to my house for dinner and things like and they thought 'how did she get to be secretary of state when I should be secretary of state?' So that was more of a problem.

We must help women in every society to have their voices heard.

To put it mildly, the world is a mess.

What you have to be concerned about are the extremists. On the whole, we need to understand the more moderate Muslims before they become more radicalized.

Bill Clinton valued my opinion and always made sure that my views were heard, and people knew that he wanted me to talk.