Too many women in too many countries speak the same language, of silence...
My own country’s record on human rights for gay people is far from perfect.
We acknowledge-now with President Obama-that we have made mistakes in the United States, and we along with other developed countries have contributed most significantly to the problem we face with climate change.
One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.
The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people’s lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.
Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have.
There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don’t contribute to the growth of their countries.
Egypt is a large, complex, very important country.
Listening to what people in other countries are saying and trying to understand how they perceive their place in the world is essential to a future of peace and security at home and abroad.
The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.
To have one’s mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.
The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.
Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear.
In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.
What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one’s country.
The United States builds weapons presumably secretly, and then it sells them to other countries. So the whole business of secrecy is kind of a fake issue because hardly anything technological remains a secret for very long.
If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism?
I do take the threat of terrorism seriously. You cannot eliminate that threat or diminish that threat by bombing a country.