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

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.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change nor even to profit by it but to cause it.

Choosing to be miserable is an option, but not one I recommend.

I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!

When you add just a little bit [of Tabasco] at the end, what you taste is the spectrum between the cooked chile flavor and the kind of nearly raw, just kind of fermented chile flavor at the end.

We are broken open, or we willfully shed.

We want to know. If we don't know, we don't feel safe, we don't feel secure.

"Value added" is a meaningless concept for a retail business , for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing.

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.