274 Quotes by 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.

To put it mildly, the world is a mess.

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.

I think this is a very hard choice, but the price – we think the price is worth it.

After the Cold War, to rally the American people to understand that we had to be a part of solutions. It’s one thing to say that we have to run everything, it’s another to say we don’t want anything to do with it.

I am by nature a worried optimist...

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

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.

The bottom line is, the more we have a cadre of women moving up the scale, and it doesn’t seem threatening, and people realize that women actually work much harder than men, and realize that they need more women in these jobs, I think that goes away.