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We must help women in every society to have their voices heard.
— Madeleine Albright
There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
— Madeleine Albright
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
— Madeleine Albright
Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
— Madeleine Albright
So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.
— Madeleine Albright
The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.
— Madeleine Albright
The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.
— Madeleine Albright
Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
— Madeleine Albright
Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.
— Madeleine Albright
What's the point of having this superb military you're always talking about, if we can't use it?
— Madeleine Albright
Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
— Madeleine Albright
I'm a problem-solver.
— Madeleine Albright
There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women.
— Madeleine Albright
Mahmoud Abbas is a puppet.
— Madeleine Albright
My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
— Madeleine Albright
What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
— Madeleine K. Albright
If diplomacy is the art of persuading others to act as we would wish, effective foreign policy requires that we comprehend why others act as they do
— Madeleine K. Albright
I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
— Madeleine Albright
NATO has been a thread throughout my life.
— Madeleine Albright
The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.
— Madeleine Albright
I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
— Madeleine Albright
To put it mildly, the world is a mess
— Madeleine Albright
Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
— Madeleine Albright
Leaders are made by the situations they are involved in. I think that some rise to the occasion and some do not.
— Madeleine Albright
For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.
— Madeleine Albright
What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.
— Madeleine Albright
Disgusting Serbs, get out!
— Madeleine K. Albright
Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.
— Madeleine Albright
I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
— Madeleine K. Albright
I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.
— Madeleine Albright
I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
— Madeleine Albright
The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
— Madeleine K. Albright
Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing.
— Madeleine Albright
I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.
— Madeleine Albright
We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
— Madeleine Albright
Armageddon is not a foreign policy.
— Madeleine Albright
The purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.
— Madeleine Albright
Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.
— Madeleine Albright
Today, I say that no nation in the world need be left out of the global system we are constructing.
— Madeleine Albright
I am by nature a worried optimist ...
— Madeleine Albright
I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
— Madeleine Albright
I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
— Madeleine Albright
No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.
— Madeleine Albright
I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.
— Madeleine Albright
I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.
— Madeleine Albright
I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.
— Madeleine Albright
I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.
— Madeleine Albright
We must be authors of the history of our age.
— Madeleine Albright
To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
— Madeleine Albright
To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
— Madeleine Albright
I got married, I really waited a long time - three days after I graduated.
— Madeleine Albright
Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
— Madeleine Albright
Only in America could a refugee girl from Central Europe become secretary of state.
— Madeleine Albright
When Hillary served as Secretary of State, I watched her partner with President Obama to restore our country's reputation around the world.
— Madeleine Albright
You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'
— Madeleine Albright
The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.
— Madeleine Albright
Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.
— Madeleine Albright
I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building.
— Madeleine Albright
I can't go out with a Republican.
— Madeleine Albright
I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.
— Madeleine Albright
I felt that America's duty was not to try to do everything itself, but to foster a sense of commitment that would bring out the best in every country.
— Madeleine Albright
If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.
— Madeleine Albright
I've never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.
— Madeleine Albright
If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
— Madeleine Albright
I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder ... Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.
— Madeleine Albright
The Framework Agreement is one of the best things the [Clinton] Administration has done because it stopped a nuclear weapons program in North Korea.
— Madeleine Albright
As former secretary of state Madeleine Albright once said, "There's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."14
— Sheryl Sandberg
I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.
— Madeleine Albright
For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.
— Madeleine Albright
Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.
— Madeleine Albright
Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.
— Helen Fielding
I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.
— Madeleine Albright
We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.
— Madeleine Albright
The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
— Madeleine Albright
I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.
— Madeleine Albright
Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.
— Madeleine Albright
The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
— Madeleine Albright
Bill Clinton valued my opinion and always made sure that my views were heard, and people knew that he wanted me to talk.
— Madeleine Albright
My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.
— Madeleine Albright
The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think men do that particularly.
— Madeleine Albright
It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.
— Madeleine Albright
There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess.
— Madeleine Albright
What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.
— Madeleine Albright
It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East.
— Madeleine Albright
I am the only high-ranking U.S. official to ever meet with Kim Jong-il, and we are the same height and both wear high heels.
— Madeleine Albright
As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
— Madeleine Albright
Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
— Madeleine Albright
Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember - there's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.
— Madeleine Albright
I have very set and consistent principles, but I am flexible on tactics. I like to get the job done.
— Madeleine Albright
Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.
— Madeleine Albright
As strong as the United States is, we can't deal with terrorism alone.
— Madeleine Albright
Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth.
— Madeleine Albright
I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.
— Madeleine Albright
While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
— Madeleine Albright
I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized.
— Madeleine Albright
Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.
— Madeleine Albright
Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.
— Madeleine Albright
So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.
— Madeleine Albright
I think I've revived the costume-jewelry industry.
— Madeleine Albright