"I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy."

"Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin."

"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 the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary."

"The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics."

"It is a quiet truth that do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul."

"A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort."

"Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies."

"To question with sincerity is the first step toward dismantling dogma. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."