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A Skilled Diplomat Rarely Generates Extreme Reactions.

You Have To Learn To Interrupt Because You Aren't Going To Get Called On.

I Am By Nature A Worried Optimist.

You [young People] All Are Just Much More Internationally-minded And Traveled And Knowledgeable In Languages Than Any Other Previous Generation. So Many Of You Are Already Doing A Lot Of International Relations, I Think. I So Believe In Student Networks, And People That Either Study Abroad Or Come To The United States To Study, And The Relationships That You All Develop. You Learn A Lot From Each Other, But You All Will See Each Other Again In Jobs Along The Way. And I Think That Makes A Big Difference. I So Believe In What Students Can Do.

The Reason I Made Women's Issues Central To American Foreign Policy, Was Not Because I Was A Feminist, But Because We Know That Societies Are More Stable If Women Are Politically And Economically Empowered.