I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

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.

All real living is meeting.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

I use so much of myself in everything I do. I think every actor does because you have no one else to go to but yourself and your own imagination.

I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the improvising.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion of some interesting text, usually, but not always, philosophical.

Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life

I love fried okra. The fact that it's okra makes me feel like it's good for you - I forget the fact that it's fried.

I look like a geeky hacker but I don’t know anything about computers.

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.