Women's issues have always been a part of my life.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.

The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.

In every war zone that I've been in there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.

In matters of truth and justice there is no difference between large and small problems for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

One is that you have to take time lots of time to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something there will be issues of trust deep trust the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.