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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 -
I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
Madeleine Albright
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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 -
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.
Madeleine Albright -
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.
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 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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
Madeleine Albright -
There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
Madeleine Albright -
We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
Madeleine Albright -
Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
Madeleine Albright
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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
Madeleine Albright -
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.
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 -
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
Madeleine Albright -
People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.
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
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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 -
As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
Madeleine Albright -
The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.
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