Armageddon is not a foreign policy. — Madeleine Albright

Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies. — Madeleine Albright

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

The purpose of foreign policy is to persuade oThers to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want. — Madeleine Albright

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy. — Madeleine Albright

Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and profound than any party affiliation. — Madeleine Albright

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. — Madeleine Albright

I’ve got to say, I’ve listened to a lot of foreign policy speeches over the years, and have given a lot myself, and i was hoping it would make some sense. — Madeleine Albright

We have the most generous immigration policy, but what is a concern is when illegal immigrants come and undermine a variety of the systems that work in order to make our society function. — Madeleine Albright

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

I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don’t. — Madeleine K. 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

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

There’s a special place in hell reserved for women who don’t help other women. — Madeleine K. Albright

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. — Madeleine Albright

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president. — Madeleine Albright

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters–but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about. — Madeleine Albright

And frankly, I don’t understand–I mean, I’m obviously a card–carrying Democrat–but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney. — Madeleine Albright

We must help women in every society to have their voices heard. — Madeleine Albright

I do consider myself a feminist. I know the word has weird implications for people now, but I do think that its important to have women involved, whether its business or public service or…anything. — Madeleine Albright

I saId that I thInk that people need to understand who has been really fIghtIng on theIr behalf on Issues that are of Interest to women, and clearly hIllary clInton has. — Madeleine Albright

Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen. — Madeleine Albright

There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.’ (Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA’s All–Decade Team, 2006) — Madeleine K. Albright

Women have to work exceptionally hard. — Madeleine Albright

There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women. — Madeleine Albright

The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don’t think men do that particularly. — Madeleine Albright

I’m not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten what high school was like. — Madeleine Albright

The interesting part is, that being the United States Secretary of State, most places I went didn’t have a problem with me being a woman, because I was representing the United States. — Madeleine Albright

So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward. — Madeleine Albright

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. — 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

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation. — Madeleine Albright

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America. — Madeleine Albright

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country. — Madeleine Albright

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. — Madeleine Albright

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. — Madeleine Albright

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

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

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference. — Madeleine Albright

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. — Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever. — Madeleine Albright

I think the hardest part [is] the priorities. There are an awful lot of things to do [being Secretary of State]. — Madeleine Albright

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

Only in America could a refugee girl from Central Europe become secretary of state. — Madeleine Albright

John Kerry knows more about more subjects than an awful lot of people. But I think it’s a very hard job [Secretary of State]. — Madeleine Albright

President clinton wisely said’ i am not going until this is prepared, i am sending the secretary… that didn’t thrill them,’. — Madeleine Albright

I consider it my patriotic duty as an ordinary citizen–not as Secretary of State–to ask questions. I think we have to ask ourselves the tough questions. — Madeleine Albright

I never dreamed about one day becoming Secretary of State. It’s not that I was modest; it’s just that I had never seen a Secretary of State in a skirt. — Madeleine Albright

John Kerry] actually stole my line because when I became Secretary of State, I said, ‘I hope my heels will fill Warren Christopher’s shoes.’ So he reversed that. — Madeleine Albright

Us is a very religious country. Separation of church and state is part of our credo, but that it is hard to understand since our money says ‘In God we trust’ and every President says ‘God bless America’. — Madeleine Albright

Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room. — Madeleine Albright

There’s nobody who’s had a resume like [Hillary Clinton] that’s run for president. — Madeleine Albright

President Trump’s eyes light up when strongmen steamroll opposition, brush aside legal constraints, ignore criticism, and do whatever it takes to get their way. — Madeleine K. Albright

A president doesn’t go to A country without Any prepArAtion, And ‘honored’ would definitely be the wrong wAy to discuss somebody who is keeping his people in poverty And stArving And control. — Madeleine Albright

Well we’re good friends so I’m a little prejudice, but I think [Hillary Clinton] is incredibly qualified, and better prepared to be president than almost anyone who’s ever run frankly. — 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’m for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below. — Madeleine Albright

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. — Madeleine Albright

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

I can’t see democracy occurring by force–after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that. — Madeleine Albright

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

The system he (President Hosni Mubarak) is recommending would make it virtually impossible for truly independent parties to participate. Sham democracy should be exposed for what it truly is. — Madeleine Albright