274 Quotes by Madeleine Albright

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

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)

...to be defenseless did not mean to be without honor.

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.

... in any group, someone has to lead, and it might as well be a woman - provided she has done the work necessary to prepare.

History would be far different if we did not tend to hear God most clearly when we think He is telling us exactly what it is we want to hear

When trouble arise among faraway people, we remain tempted to hide behind the principle of national sovereignty, to "mind our own business" when it is convenient, and to think of democracy as a suit to be worn in fine weather but felt in the closet when clouds threaten.

Disgusting Serbs, get out!

A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.