In This Day And Age, The U.s.

If You Want Change, You Have To Make It. If We Want Progress We Have To Drive It.

The United States Really Only Accounts For About 3 Percent Of The Economic Engagement With Russia. Europe Is 40 Percent, And So Europe's Contribution To This Pressure Is Far More Than Symbolic. It's Very Practical. And That's One Of The Many Reasons Why We Have Worked Hard To Remain In Close Coordination With Our European Partners.

Be Who You Are. If You Spend All Of Your Time Worrying About How People View You, You Will Not Be Either Faithful To Yourself Or Effective In What You're Trying To Do.

I Am Straight Forward; I Am Not Manipulative; I Am Not Two-faced. And I Think That That Has Served Me Well In All Of My Roles, Particularly As A Diplomat, Because People Knew If I Said Something, I Meant It. If I Said No, I Meant No, And If I Said We Could Make This Work, We Would Make It Work.

I've Been Very Lucky To Have Had A Supportive Family, A Great Education, Enormous Opportunity And Challenge.