Madeleine Albright Quotes

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Madeleine Albright

Profession : Statesman

Birth : May 15, 1937

I can't go out with a Republican.

Madeleine Albright

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

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 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.

Madeleine Albright

There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.

Madeleine Albright

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

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I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

Madeleine Albright

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

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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.

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People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

Madeleine Albright

I think I've revived the costume-jewelry industry.

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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

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One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

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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.

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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.

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

Madeleine Albright

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

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

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