Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and p….

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is ….

There's nobody who's had a resume like [Hillary Clinton] that's run for president..

I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not..

John Kerry knows more about more subjects than an awful lot of people. But I think it's a very hard job [Secretary of State]..

Bill Clinton valued my opinion and always made sure that my views were heard, and people knew that he wanted me to talk..

Why, since man and woman were created for each other, had He made their desires so dissimilar? Why should one class of women be able to dwell in luxu….

Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing..

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view..

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work….

We have to understand where we have strategic relationships that require us to take a different approach. I guess the easiest way to describe it is: ….

Though I am flattered that Governor Palin has chosen to cite me as a source of wisdom, what I said had nothing to do with politics. This is yet anoth….

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unles….

Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'l….

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy..

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelr….

Armageddon is not a foreign policy..

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large pl….

The system he (President Hosni Mubarak) is recommending would make it virtually impossible for truly independent parties to participate. Sham democra….

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe..

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile..