274 Quotes by Madeleine Albright

There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but – to put it mildly – the world is a mess.

I get up every morning and I’m grateful for everything that has happened. I go through my list about being grateful for my children and grandchildren, and for the really remarkable life that I have been able to have.

It’s one thing to be religious, but it’s another thing to make religion your policy.

I don’t think people should think of women’s issues as auxiliary issues – they are central.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‘tough this and tough that.’ Then there is this business about ‘gooey.’ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

I wasn’t a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn’t written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

What’s the point of having this superb military you’re always talking about, if we can’t use it?