If I'd been a better long-term planner, I'd still be in music, as a musician someplace. So I'll take it one step at a time.

One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us.

Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had.

When you are going up the corporate ladder or the government ladder, you have to take some risk.

The United States will actively confront the policies of this Iranian regime, and at the same time we are going to work to support the aspirations of the Iranian people for freedom in their own country.

I got the chance to be the secretary of state; I'm an international relations specialist. It doesn't get better than that.