One of the things I write about a bit in my Madam Secretary memoir is on Rwanda, where I was an instructed ambassador at the U.N., and my instruction….

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved weari….

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there..

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy..

History is written backwards but lived forwards..

The cover-up, more than the initial wrongdoing, is what is most likely to bring you down..

What you have to be concerned about are the extremists. On the whole, we need to understand the more moderate Muslims before they become more radical….

We went to the same college so I know [Hillary Clinton's] study habits, but when she was first lady of Arkansas, she did a lot of things already for ….

I teach at Georgetown, and I see that the students have so many different interests. The main thing is to match your passion with your knowledge, bec….

If we have to use force, it is because we are America..

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French..

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have t….

We don't understand enough about the Islam religion and Muslim world..

In diplomacy, clear-cut wins and losses are rare..

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and g….

The interesting part is, that being the United States Secretary of State, most places I went didn't have a problem with me being a woman, because I w….

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretar….

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about..

We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction..

Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we mu….

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies..