It's important for American SOLDIERS to be culturally SENSITIVE when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American VALUES, which, after all, are ALSO universal values.

Unfortunately, in Korea, I FEEL LIKE some people are just SEEING the dollar signs and sending out artists into the foreign markets who aren't fully prepared.

My home POLICY: I wage WAR; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the TIME I wage war.

And I don't SAY that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the GENEROSITY of their FOREIGN policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.

As women politicians, we TALK about the most DIFFICULT THEMES of state security, foreign relations and development models, then ask, 'How do you make it WORK with your husband?' The interesting thing is that these women - most of them - don't lose the perspective that the FOCUS is not the position but the job at hand.

There is OBVIOUSLY a GAP between the PUBLIC's perception of the role of U.S. FOREIGN POLICY and the elite's perception.

My early education was in the public school SYSTEM of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I REALIZE that my HIGH school TRAINING served me in good stead for the BASIC subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history.

That's why I felt so at HOME when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was HALFWAY around the world in a FOREIGN country, because all those elements are universal. And I THINK that's one thing about my work: It's universal.

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like LIVING in a foreign COUNTRY.

If TYRANNY and OPPRESSION COME to this land, it will be in the guise of FIGHTING a foreign ENEMY.

There's a DESTINY for EVERYBODY. The world is set up - as foreign as that can be to some people who are very materialistic - but there is a force in this world, once we step into it, that opens doors for us, that GIVES us a SENSE of purpose and the greatest life there is, in my view.

The THINGS you leave SCHOOL knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use to me. Schools should TEACH the basics of COOKERY, first AID, how to look after your money and how to speak foreign languages. Useful things.

You need MYSTERY. You actually do. I THINK that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's STILL a sense that you need to KEEP some of the unknown because that's where the SOUL resides, or something.

Obama wants to be thought of as the PRESIDENT who freed US from foreign OIL. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may WELL be REMEMBERED as the president who cooked the planet.

My father is an ECONOMIST who specialized in FOREIGN food policy, and my mother WORKED for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food in regards to WORLD affairs was talked about a lot.