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

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 very, very hard.

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 Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.

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

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

I've never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

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

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

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

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

As strong as the United States is, we can't deal with terrorism alone.

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

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

I am such a political person.