Top 100 Albright's Quotes
#1. Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.
Helen Fielding
#2. 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
#3. 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.
Madeleine Albright
#4. 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
#5. When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.
Madeleine Albright
#6. I felt that America's duty was not to try to do everything itself, but to foster a sense of commitment that would bring out the best in every country.
Madeleine Albright
#8. I am the only high-ranking U.S. official to ever meet with Kim Jong-il, and we are the same height and both wear high heels.
Madeleine Albright
#9. A painting is life and a painting is death ... the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living.
Ivan Albright
#10. 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
#11. It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.
Madeleine Albright
#12. 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
#13. People tend to box little girls in. They teach them to sit properly and stand quietly and not attract attention. Sports is one place where girls can be free and enjoy the exhilaration of movement.
Tenley Albright
#14. 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
#15. I bought ... the pins with my three daughters in mind; the ships are beautiful, graceful, and moving along at full sail, having long since left home port.
Madeleine Albright
#16. 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
#17. This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.
Madeleine Albright
#18. It almost alarms me how free I feel on the ice. I don't think about the hospital or the groceries or the kids
I'm just in touch with myself. It's exciting when your whole body is moving in synchronous motion.
Tenley Albright
#19. I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized.
Madeleine Albright
#20. It is an unfortunate fact that in many parts of the world women are considered property. An awful lot of injustice is obviously due to that; not just women's status in the home, but all kinds of laws that are even more discriminating.
Madeleine Albright
#21. 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
#22. It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
Madeleine Albright
#23. No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.
Madeleine Albright
#24. Madeleine Albright, when you see her, she's not a beautiful woman and she's getting older. But you're saying that woman has gravitas. She knows what she's talking about.
Joy Behar
#25. 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.
Madeleine Albright
#26. 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
#27. The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.
Madeleine Albright
#29. I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.
Madeleine Albright
#30. 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
#31. Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.
Madeleine Albright
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire ... but I had gone to a women's college.
Madeleine Albright
#35. 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
#36. I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.
Madeleine Albright
#37. 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.
Madeleine Albright
#38. I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.
Madeleine Albright
#39. 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
#40. The capability of negotiating ... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
Madeleine Albright
#41. 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
#42. Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.
Madeleine Albright
#43. I was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U.S.] secretary of state of the 21st century. I was the first secretary of state to own a Web site, to visit Internet cafes, and to make Internet access a part of policy.
Madeleine Albright
#44. You have to understand that women in the South, women of Southern blood, just don't partake in scandalous adventures--- and when we do, it's in a discreet manner. We have reputations to consider, after all." ~ Blake O'Hara Heart in THE SASSY BELLES
Beth Albright
#45. As former secretary of state Madeleine Albright once said, "There's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."14
Sheryl Sandberg
#46. Imagining Janet Albright, Matt Kensington's terrifying admin, and Max Ackerman, his limo driver, as a couple wasn't as unlikely a vision as he'd expected. In fact, it might be a mighty interesting combination. 'Course, an explosion was interesting-if you wer outside the blast zone.
Joey W. Hill
#47. A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.
Madeleine Albright
#48. When Hillary served as Secretary of State, I watched her partner with President Obama to restore our country's reputation around the world.
Madeleine Albright
#49. What's the point of having this superb military you're always talking about, if we can't use it?
Madeleine Albright
#50. The road to success can take a detour. I tell people that I don't care if they came from Yale or jail, it's what you do from today that counts.
Andy Albright
#51. When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they serve.
Madeleine Albright
#52. I would like for people to not be stuck by the rules of what is expected of a classical musician. If you really want to do something different, don't be afraid to do so. Think of music itself and not the rules or expectations of people.
Charlie Albright
#53. After the Cold War, to rally the American people to understand that we had to be a part of solutions. It's one thing to say that we have to run everything, it's another to say we don't want anything to do with it.
Madeleine Albright
#55. 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
#57. 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
#58. You have to learn to interrupt because you aren't going to get called on.
Madeleine Albright
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women.
Madeleine Albright
#62. Leaders are made by the situations they are involved in. I think that some rise to the occasion and some do not.
Madeleine Albright
#63. If you don't fall down, you aren't trying hard enough,
Tenley Albright
#64. (1) I have told you more than I know about osteoporosis. (2) What I have told you is subject to change without notice. (3) I hope I raised more questions than I have given answers. (4) In any case, as usual, a lot more work is necessary.
Fuller Albright
#65. Perspective, we can only get it when we look beyond this life and realize we're not alone
Kevin Albright
#67. Madeleine Albright says, "There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women." I wonder what happens to women who bully other women.
Crystal Woods
#69. Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
Madeleine Albright
#72. 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
#73. I do not know how long the arm of Mr Holbrooke or Mrs Albright is ... or whether that arm can reach me here.
Radovan Karadzic
#74. The NAA way is to operate from a servant's heart, and service will be returned to you exponentially.
Andy Albright
#75. Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.
Madeleine Albright
#77. 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
#78. Startled, I flinched "What are you doing?"
"Keeping you from going postal."
"You're doing it wrong.
L.B. Gregg
#79. The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.
Madeleine Albright
#81. Go for it, never back down, and don't give in, because there's no greater satisfaction in life than using your gifts to help others and to contribute to your community and country.
Madeleine Albright
#82. I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in Camp David in 1998 - Madeleine Albright and the Clintons were there, and I just became really inspired by all of these amazing people. I left the screening asking myself what I could do.
Lawrence Bender
#83. Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.
Madeleine Albright
#84. The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
Madeleine Albright
#87. There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition.
William F. Albright
#88. in March 2000, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright offered an apology for the U.S. role in the August events. She offered carefully worded regrets for the fact that the United States had "played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular Prime Minister" in 1953.
Abbas Milani
#89. Without hesitation but with a sense of entitlement, he lifted my hand to his lips. He was gentlemen-like in every way ... I don't know why I wondered if it was an act or for real.
Laura Albright
#90. I wonder," wrote Eleanor Roosevelt, "whether we have decided to hide behind neutrality? It is safe, perhaps, but I am not always sure it is right to be safe. . . Every time a nation which has known freedom loses it, other free nations lose something, too.
Madeleine K. Albright
#91. 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.
Madeleine Albright
#92. 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
#94. 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
#95. The only thing holding you back is you. Commit to developing the mindset of a winner, set your goals and chase them down. Remember, a dog in the hunt ain't got no fleas!
Andy Albright
#96. What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.
Madeleine Albright
#97. The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.
Madeleine Albright
#98. We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
Madeleine Albright
#100. My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.
Madeleine Albright
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