Madeleine Albright Quotes

The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq.

The interesting part is, that being the United States Secretary of State, most places I went didn't have a problem with me being a woman, because I was representing the United States.

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.

I got married, I really waited a long time - three days after I graduated.

I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that.

We don't understand enough about the Islam religion and Muslim world.

I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.

A great task has been completed and an even larger one remains.

I consider it my patriotic duty as an ordinary citizen - not as Secretary of State - to ask questions. I think we have to ask ourselves the tough questions.

John Kerry knows more about more subjects than an awful lot of people. But I think it's a very hard job [Secretary of State].

I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.

I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.

I do consider myself a feminist. I know the word has weird implications for people now, but I do think that its important to have women involved, whether its business or public service or...anything.

Bill Clinton valued my opinion and always made sure that my views were heard, and people knew that he wanted me to talk.

I think the jobs [at the top] are unbelievably difficult, and there is nothing easier than second-guessing people.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

I never dreamed about one day becoming Secretary of State. It's not that I was modest; it's just that I had never seen a Secretary of State in a skirt.

We have the most generous immigration policy, but what is a concern is when illegal immigrants come and undermine a variety of the systems that work in order to make our society function.

Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America.

What's the point of having this superb military you're always talking about if we can't use it?

It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

Unfortunately for the Iraqi people, instead of meeting these requirements, for six years, Saddam Hussein has lied, delayed, obstructed and tried to deceive

So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

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.

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

I can't go out with a Republican.

As strong as the United States is, we can't deal with terrorism alone.

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.

Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.

I am such a political person.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

It's important that we invest in America - literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can't let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.