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 bottom line is, the more we have a cadre of women moving up the scale, and it doesn't seem threatening, and people realize that women actually work much harder than men, and realize that they need more women in these jobs, I think that goes away.

We don't understand enough about the Islam religion and Muslim world.

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.