“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.”
Business
“We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about what they care about is the picture.”
SocietyAll Quotes by Madeleine Albright
“Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.”
Women“We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about what they care about is the picture.”
Society“It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.”
Religion“I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.”
Strength“Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.”
Money“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.”
History“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.”
Women“I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.”
Government“I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.”
Women“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.”
Leadership“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.”
Freedom“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.”
Hope“The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.”
War“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.”
Women“I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.”
Hope“Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.”
Women“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.”
Great“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.”
Future“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.”
Women