The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.

There is no pure free-market economy.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.

I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.

The only race I know is the human one.

Bernie Mac don't sugarcoat.

Some truce," Daniel said, "Eighteen days of others trying to kill her.

Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can't ask any more from yourself, and people can't ask any more from you.

Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.

I'm simply pointing out that what happens to us isn't the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we're not together.

The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.

When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.