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I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.

I'm acting for the same reasons I wanted to become a diplomat. I've thought about it a lot and concluded that I wanted to become a diplomat because it was a way to explore human nature. For the same reason that at one point in college, I wanted to be a sociologist.

Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'

I was a Political Science major.

In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.

I got the chance to be the secretary of state; I'm an international relations specialist. It doesn't get better than that.

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.