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.

I am straight forward; I am not manipulative; I am not two-faced. And I think that that has served me well in all of my roles, particularly as a diplomat, because people knew if I said something, I meant it. If I said no, I meant no, and if I said we could make this work, we would make it work.

The notion that I had become a political lightning rod was painful for me to experience.

What we have done is when the threat has been directed at the United States, i.e., the terrorist threat from ISIL or Al-Qaeda in Syria, is to go after them.

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.

Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked.

I may not be able to work for anybody else again. I may just have to work for myself.