I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.

I look for the consensus because the consensus drives the policy into new places.

I'm not interested in the limelight.

Judge me on what I do and I think you will be pleased and proud of me.

If someone uses the uniform, whatever uniform, for partisan politics, I am disappointed because I think it does erode that bond of trust we have with the American people.

There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.

Government is really successful when it's willing to make big, bold objectives, like, 'We're going to get to the moon.' But without leaders with big ideas, we get stuck.

When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at that time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change.