"I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor."

"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 plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government."

"I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region."

"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."

"There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands."

"It is a quiet truth that the test of character in leadership is how one behaves in moments of unvarnished power — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The test of character in leadership is how one behaves in moments of unvarnished power."

"Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens."