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

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.

Americans are hungry for change both at home and in our relations with the rest of the world.

Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.

When my son was a mere three months old, I started working at the State Department. I was not only the youngest Assistant Secretary of State but I was also a breastfeeding mother. I'm the first to admit that this felt crazy at times, and the balancing act is never ever easy. But my two kids are the most wonderful things that have ever happened to me.

There are no cookie-cutter solutions that you can apply from one circumstance to another. They're different. Our interests, as implicated, are different. The tools we have at our disposal are different.

The notion that -- which some people are trying to suggest, that by asking for the identity of an American person, that is the same as leaking it, is completely false. There's no equivalence between so-called unmasking and leaking.