274 Quotes by Madeleine Albright

Bill Clinton valued my opinion and always made sure that my views were heard, and people knew that he wanted me to talk.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

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.

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.

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.

Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.

Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

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