Best Quotes by American Diplomat Madeleine Albright

As strong as the United States is we can’t deal with terrorism alone.

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.

The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

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.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government in the short run it is among the most fragile.

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.

I wasn’t a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn’t written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

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.

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power sending messages. Interestingly enough it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power sending messages. Interestingly enough it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

It’s one thing to be religious but it’s another thing to make religion your policy.

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.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about what they care about is the picture.

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.

The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

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.

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.

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.

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 have to be active listeners and interrupters – but when you interrupt you have to know what you are talking about.

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

Women can’t do everything at the same time we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think women want to take care of themselves and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.