unfortunately on a path right now where relations are not improving, but are worsening.

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

We've always said that we were not going to have a cookie-cutter approach,

We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.

there is not going to be any pass for Palestinian leadership in fighting terror.

We are not race blind. Of course we still have racial tensions in this country. But the United States of America has made enormous progress in race relations, and it is still the best place on Earth to be a minority.