Madeleine Albright Quotes

• 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.

  Madeleine Albright

• 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.

  Madeleine Albright

• I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, ‘So what’s the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.’ Most of her lifetime, it’s true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

  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.

  Madeleine Albright

• I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

  Madeleine Albright

• I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, ‘I like your tie,’ to a man… or, ‘I like your country because the weather’s good,’ or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

  Madeleine Albright

• I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

  Madeleine Albright

• I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

  Madeleine Albright

• I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.

  Madeleine Albright

• I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

  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.

  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.

  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.

  Madeleine Albright

• I can’t go out with a Republican.

  Madeleine Albright

• I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

  Madeleine Albright

• I am such a political person.

  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.

  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.

  Madeleine Albright

• Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.

  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

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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