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

I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

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

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

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

Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.