The Cover-up, More Than The Initial Wrongdoing,

The Reason I Made Women's Issues Central To American Foreign Policy, Was Not Because I Was A Feminist, But Because We Know That Societies Are More Stable If Women Are Politically And Economically Empowered.

I Had More Problems With The Men In Our Own Government, And Not Because They Were Male Chauvinistic Pigs But Because They Had Known Me For So Long. I Might Have Been A Carpool Mother And A Friend Of Their Wife, And So They'd Been To My House For Dinner And Things Like And They Thought 'how Did She Get To Be Secretary Of State When I Should Be Secretary Of State?' So That Was More Of A Problem.

What People Have The Capacity To Choose, They Have The Ability To Change.

After The Cold War, To Rally The American People To Understand That We Had To Be A Part Of Solutions. It's One Thing To Say That We Have To Run Everything, It's Another To Say We Don't Want Anything To Do With It.

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.