My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

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

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.