If I'm strong, I'm not going to apologize for being strong.

We have to raise our young boys to respect women and our young girls to demand respect and to get their values from something other than their physicality.

I'm not in love with David Petraeus. But I think he does present a terrific role model.

I haven't had senators advocating for me.

As an intelligence officer, if you don't have a security clearance, you really don't have a job. My military position was, and has been, frozen, for four years.

When I fell, some people were in such shock that they didn't reach out. They were so mad at me, rather than having compassion for what happened. I lost a lot of friends.

[My kids] were very young at the time and didn't realize what was going on. We told them that mom made a mistake and people want to talk about it in the news so they're outside our house.

I think the public doesn't understand that one of the reasons I haven't stood up for myself is because in order to do that, I have to stoop to a level that further humiliates other people.

It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress].

I was an academic and I lost my assignment at Harvard. Meanwhile, [David Petraeus] gets invited to Harvard to become a fellow.

I was a Ph.D. student at a very reputable university, I was a Harvard research associate at one of the world's premier leadership institutions.

As children play games with imaginary things, initially a seeker indulges in little things. So simple people believe in simple things.

Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.

You mustn't be so afraid of life - it's all we've got. Don't let it hurt you so much.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.

I would love to do a film in Africa.

Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.