I may not be able to work for anybody else again. I may just have to work for myself.

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.

I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests

We have to know who we are and know what we believe.

Whenever you are transplanted, like me, you will understand how very delightful it is to meet with anything at all like what one has left behind.

I guess I've always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals - people who are adventurous and take chances.

A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.

In our lives a dog is a dog rather than a former wolf, and it surely is not a cat, a difference that means an enormous amount to some people.

I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.

A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.

It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority.