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

I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

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 didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.