I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.

It may not be what you would've chosen, but we all have a responsibility to be active citizens and shape our system and our future.

It's in our interest to continue with the Paris Agreement and to deal with climate change as the real threat it actually is.

The youth thing never really, from my vantage point, slowed me down. I think the harder audience for me to gain acceptance from was the career diplomatic corps that worked with and for me in the Africa Bureau.

We should learn to tolerate nuclear weapons of North Korea just like we did the Soviet Union.

Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.

The United States of America is the leading power in the world. Our friends and our adversaries respect us in large measure because they know that we are steady. We are fact-based. We are serious.