I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.

If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about what they care about is the picture.

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.