Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

I wish the meeting had been as good as the lunch.

It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.

One always wonders about roads not taken.

It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.

I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.

...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends, there's nothing left.

Write it down and it will come alive.

A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example.

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.

Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.

Focus on where you are instead of where you wish you were. The joy will follow.

...let us continue to work together to develop and nurture in future generations a culture of human rights, to promote freedom, security and peace in all nations.

If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing.

I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.