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

"Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen."

"But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me."

"If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future."

"I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers."

"I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms."

"Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."

"Experience is the stern teacher that gives the examination before the lesson. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."