Madeleine Albright Quotes
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Hugh, I know I shouldn't even be asking you this, but what we really need in order to go in and take out Saddam is a precipitous event-something that would make us look good in the eyes of the world. Could you have one of our U-2s fly low enough-and slow enough-so as to guarantee that Saddam could shoot it down?
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Armageddon is not a foreign policy.
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I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.
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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.
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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.
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I never should have made it. It was stupid.
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What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?
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I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.
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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.
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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.
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There were always jokes about Hillary Clinton channeling Eleanor Roosevelt, but Eleanor Roosevelt was really instrumental at the UN, and would want to meet with various other delegates.
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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.
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I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.
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There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess.
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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.
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And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the “my way or the highway” approach that was evident in the previous eight years.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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One of my trips was to meet with the Gulf Cooperation Council with all the Saudi foreign ministers, and when we started the meeting I said 'Perhaps you've noticed that I'm not dressed the same as my predecessors", but no-one had a problem and I was never treated with anything other than respect...So I did not have problems with that, interestingly enough.
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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.
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Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.