Madeleine Albright Quotes

• It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

  Madeleine Albright

• It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

  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.

  Madeleine Albright

• If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

  Madeleine Albright

• I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

  Madeleine Albright

• I’m a problem-solver.

  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.

  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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.

  Madeleine Albright

• I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

  Madeleine Albright

• I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

  Madeleine Albright

• I think I’ve revived the costume-jewelry industry.

  Madeleine Albright

• I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.

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• I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

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• 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.

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Madeleine Albright (100)

Birth:	15th May, 1937
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Diplomat, Politician, Statesman

About

Madeleine Albright is a Czech-born American politician and diplomat. She is the first woman to have become the United States Secretary of State. She was nominated by U.S. President Bill Clinton on December 5, 1996, and was unanimously confirmed by a U.S. Senate vote of 99–0. She was sworn in on January 23, 1997.

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