Madeleine Albright Quotes

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.

Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and profound than any party affiliation.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.

We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.

Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.

To put it mildly, the world is a mess.

I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

As you go along your own road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance... But no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still and persevere.

My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.

No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.

Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.

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.

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

The cover-up, more than the initial wrongdoing, is what is most likely to bring you down.

What you have to be concerned about are the extremists. On the whole, we need to understand the more moderate Muslims before they become more radicalized.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.

I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.

I think that the Middle East is the largest piece of unfinished business that we all have. I happen to believe in the democratization process.

We must be authors of the history of our age.

When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.

I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized.

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

There's nobody who's had a resume like [Hillary Clinton] that's run for president.

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

The Framework Agreement is one of the best things the [Clinton] Administration has done because it stopped a nuclear weapons program in North Korea.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

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.

What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.

When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they serve.

Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.

A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.

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.

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.

The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.

Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.

My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.