Quotes from 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.

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

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.

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

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember - there's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.

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.

Our life comes in segments, and we have to understand that we can have it all if we're not trying to do it all at once.

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

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

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

Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.

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.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

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

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

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.

I got married, I really waited a long time - three days after I graduated.

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

The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

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

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.

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.

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.