3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it’s necessary.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about what they care about is the picture.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright 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.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright It’s one thing to be religious, but it’s another thing to make religion your policy.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright I am a beneficiary of the American people’s generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright 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.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright I didn’t want to set up a women’s studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it’s male-dominated.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright 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.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We’re a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright 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.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright Women can’t do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‘tough this and tough that.’ Then there is this business about ‘gooey.’ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright As strong as the United States is, we can’t deal with terrorism alone.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright 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.
