Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in terms of understanding hard science for people who are studying climate change, or people who are interested in health policy or food security, or people who care about education.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.

Armageddon is not a foreign policy.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the “my way or the highway” approach that was evident in the previous eight years.