110+ Madeleine Albright Quotes On Fascism, Democracy And Diplomatic

Madeleine Albright is an American statesman who served as the first female United States Secretary of State. She was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1997 and served until 2001. Albright is also a professor, author, and diplomat, and was the first female to become a United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Madeleine Albright on fascism, democracy, diplomatic.

Top 10 Madeleine Albright Quotes

1. There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.
5. I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.
6. We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
7. My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
8. As you go along your own road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance... But no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still and persevere.
9. No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.
10. As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

Madeleine Albright Short Quotes

• Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.
• Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.
• The cover-up, more than the initial wrongdoing, is what is most likely to bring you down.
• To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
• I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
• The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.
• I'm a problem-solver.
• What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
• Mahmoud Abbas is a puppet.
• Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.

Madeleine Albright Quotes About Democracy

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

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

You have to learn to interrupt because you aren't going to get called on. — 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

Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands. — Madeleine Albright

I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that. — 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

Madeleine Albright Quotes About Weapons

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

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

The Framework Agreement is one of the best things the [Clinton] Administration has done because it stopped a nuclear weapons program in North Korea. — Madeleine Albright

Madeleine Albright Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

The world would be entirely different if it were run by women. I think it is true that we are more seeking consensus and don't have such big egos and have a variety of different ways of trying to get along. But anybody who says that the world would be better has forgotten high school. It depends on who the women are. — Madeleine Albright

There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants my violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected. — Madeleine Albright

Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth. — Madeleine Albright

I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building. — Madeleine Albright

I think that the Middle East is the largest piece of unfinished business that we all have. I happen to believe in the democratization process. — Madeleine Albright

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life. — 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

I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized. — Madeleine Albright

When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy. — Madeleine Albright

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there. — Madeleine Albright

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences. — Madeleine Albright

I teach at Georgetown, and I see that the students have so many different interests. The main thing is to match your passion with your knowledge, because you can't just be passionate without knowing the facts, and facts are really boring without passion. — 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 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

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

In A Man With a Pipe, my brother observed that although my father had been seen as intellectual and my mother more a creature of temperament, she had often been the more levelheaded of the two. In sum, we miss them as we love them, equally and always. — Madeleine Albright

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair. — Madeleine Albright

Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in terms of understanding hard science for people who are studying climate change, or people who are interested in health policy or food security, or people who care about education. — Madeleine Albright

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

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

I have very set and consistent principles, but I am flexible on tactics. I like to get the job done. — Madeleine Albright

jewels have played a colorful part in the evolution of world affairs. Because precious stones tend to inspire both admiration and greed, leaders have found convenient excuses for seeking them and have used them to impress crowds, reward friends, deprive foes, forge alliances, and justify war. Jewels may find their highest expression in the decorative arts, but they have also earned a place in the art of the possible. — Madeleine Albright

There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess. — Madeleine Albright

I do think that she [Hillary Clinton] will prove that she's the best, whether she's in the White House or somewhere else. I think it will very much be a historic moment, when we are able to say that we actually have done something like put a woman in the White House. Its very interesting to think about considering its taken us long as it has. — Madeleine Albright

We have to understand where we have strategic relationships that require us to take a different approach. I guess the easiest way to describe it is: different strokes for different folks. — Madeleine Albright

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

In diplomacy, clear-cut wins and losses are rare. — 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

Even though there were three newspapers in Chicago at the time, he said 'you wouldn't want to compete with your husband," and so instead of doing what I might do now in that situation, I basically saluted and found other things to do. — 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

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference. — Madeleine Albright

The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq. — Madeleine Albright

I think I've revived the costume-jewelry industry. — Madeleine Albright

Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume. — Madeleine Albright

I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder . . . Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice. — Madeleine Albright

If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle with the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expected or hoped to see than on what was really there. — Madeleine Albright

I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it. — Madeleine Albright

Obviously Iran is a very large problem. It's hard to decide what the number one issue [is], but that is a very threatening problem. — 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

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

Armageddon is not a foreign policy. — Madeleine Albright

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

You can't just think that you will get a job for no good reason... And I think that the other part is you have to work your way up, you know I did a lot of Xeroxing and getting coffee...I always did what I was asked to do. I delivered. People knew that I would get things done and get them done well. And that is a big part of our resumes, are based on being responsible and being willing to do what needed to be done. — Madeleine Albright

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

I went to a girls high school and I went to a women's college and when I first started teaching at Georgetown it had been a single sex school and so they wanted to have some women professors when they went co-ed, and so I originally was hired to start a program there, and really encourage women to go into foreign policy. I always have done that, and I really do think that things are better when women are involved. — 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 have had fun being who I became, so to speak. — Madeleine Albright

Why, since man and woman were created for each other, had He made their desires so dissimilar? Why should one class of women be able to dwell in luxurious seclusion from the trials of life, while another class performed their loathsome tasks? Surely His wisdom had not decreed that one set of women should live in degradation and in the end should perish that others might live in security, preserve their frappeed chastity, and in the end be saved. — 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

We went to the same college so I know [Hillary Clinton's] study habits, but when she was first lady of Arkansas, she did a lot of things already for children, and she was head of the Children's Defense Fund, and that's how I first heard her or met her, she was very very involved in really a very important social program to do something about children and women and education. — Madeleine Albright

History is written backwards but lived forwards. — Madeleine Albright

We don't understand enough about the Islam religion and Muslim world. — Madeleine Albright

I am such a political person. — Madeleine Albright

One of the things I write about a bit in my Madam Secretary memoir is on Rwanda, where I was an instructed ambassador at the U.N., and my instructions were to not vote for increased forces there, and I didn't like my instructions. So I got up and called Washington and said, "Change my instructions," and they didn't. — Madeleine Albright

People didn't think that a woman could be the Secretary of State, when my name was out there...but then the Arab Ambassadors at the UN said 'We have no problem dealing with Ambassador Albright, and we would have no problem dealing with Secretary Albright.' — Madeleine Albright

To put it mildly, the world is a mess. — Madeleine Albright

I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist who worries a lot. — Madeleine Albright

I have certain issues. I support women candidates, but I cannot support a woman that I don't believe in. I would prefer to vote for a man who believes in choice than a woman who is pro-life. We have to be able to make distinctions and not look as though we are not feminist enough if we don't support every woman. We need to have that kind of a choice. — Madeleine Albright

I am by nature a worried optimist. — Madeleine Albright

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

When somebody is flying airplanes into buildings and killing innocent people in the name of God, it makes you question why do they have that interpretation and somebody else has another interpretation, and how many people of Muslim faith would agree with that, and what are the different aspects of different people's religions that is so divisive, rather than being unifying? — Madeleine Albright

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

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

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

I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations. — 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

As far as barriers once I joined the government I was very lucky because I had all of my credentials together, I was Doctor Albright... So when somebody wanted the one woman I made sure that they knew I was dependable and qualified. — Madeleine Albright

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central. — Madeleine Albright

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. — Madeleine Albright

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

As a child, I really did see buildings bombed, and what makes me different from an American that's the same age as I am is that I can understand what happens when there is fighting in a way that they couldn't. — 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

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

What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism. — Madeleine Albright

Women have to work exceptionally hard. — 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 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

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

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it. — Madeleine Albright

Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility. — Madeleine Albright

Leaders are made by the situations they are involved in. I think that some rise to the occasion and some do not. — Madeleine Albright

Life Lessons by Madeleine Albright

1. Madeleine Albright's work demonstrates the importance of standing up for what you believe in and never giving up on your goals.
2. She also showed that it is possible to achieve great things, no matter your background or gender.
3. Albright's life serves as an example of how dedication and hard work can lead to success in any field.