Madeleine Albright

The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.

— Madeleine Albright

Armageddon is not a foreign policy.

— Madeleine Albright

Mahmoud Abbas is a puppet.

— Madeleine Albright

“Disgusting Serbs, get out!”

— Madeleine Albright

Women have to work exceptionally hard.

— Madeleine Albright

I am by nature a worried optimist.

— Madeleine Albright

To put it mildly, the world is a mess

— Madeleine Albright

I'm a problem-solver.

— Madeleine Albright

“there is aspecial place in hell for women who do not help other womem”

— Madeleine Albright

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

— Madeleine Albright

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

— Madeleine Albright

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

— Madeleine Albright

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

— Madeleine Albright

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

— Madeleine Albright

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

— Madeleine Albright

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

— Madeleine Albright

I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.

— Madeleine Albright

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

— Madeleine Albright

Obviously Iran is a very large problem. It's hard to decide what the number one issue [is], but that is a very…

— Madeleine Albright

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

— 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…

— Madeleine Albright

“I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in…

— Madeleine Albright

Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move…

— Madeleine Albright

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

— Madeleine Albright

One of the things I write about a bit in my Madam Secretary memoir is on Rwanda, where I was an instructed…

— Madeleine Albright

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in…

— Madeleine Albright

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,…

— Madeleine Albright

In A Man With a Pipe, my brother observed that although my father had been seen as intellectual and my mother more…

— Madeleine Albright

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort,…

— 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…

— Madeleine Albright

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people…

— Madeleine Albright

After the Cold War, to rally the American people to understand that we had to be a part of solutions. It's one…

— Madeleine Albright

I went to a girls high school and I went to a women's college and when I first started teaching at Georgetown…

— Madeleine Albright

But I think there are some who believe they are actually protecting women, you know, and that it is better for women…

— Madeleine Albright

We went to the same college so I know [Hillary Clinton's] study habits, but when she was first lady of Arkansas, she…

— Madeleine Albright

You can't just think that you will get a job for no good reason... And I think that the other part is…

— Madeleine Albright

When somebody is flying airplanes into buildings and killing innocent people in the name of God, it makes you question why do…

— Madeleine Albright

We are very hip on the fact that America's always No. 1. On this we are not, in terms of the number…

— Madeleine Albright

Women are more than 50% of almost every country in the world. Countries rob themselves of the resources of women if they…

— Madeleine Albright

“Returning to Washington,FDR declared that Yalta Conference had put and end to the kind of balance-of-power divisions that had long marred global…

— Madeleine Albright