But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.

I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

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

I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.