John Kerry Knows More About More Subjects

I Never Dreamed About One Day Becoming Secretary Of State. It's Not That I Was Modest; It's Just That I Had Never Seen A Secretary Of State In A Skirt.

Really, I Have To Laugh Because There Was A Whole Set Of Stories That Made Me Sound Like The Dragon Lady, You Know, 'tough This And Tough That.' Then There Is This Business About 'gooey.' The Bottom Line Is I Am A Pragmatic Idealist.

The Purpose Of Foreign Policy Is To Persuade Others To Do What We Want Or, Better Yet, To Want What We Want.

I Have Always Seen The United States As A Force Of Good. And I Have Learned That There Is The Idealistic Part About What We Can Do At The U.n. And There Is A Doable Part. And I Have Learned What Is More Doable.

After The Cold War, To Rally The American People To Understand That We Had To Be A Part Of Solutions. It's One Thing To Say That We Have To Run Everything, It's Another To Say We Don't Want Anything To Do With It.