274 Quotes by Madeleine Albright

The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

Women are more than 50% of almost every country in the world. Countries rob themselves of the resources of women if they keep them as property. It isn't that women can't find work. It's just that women don't get paid for their work and are not recognized properly. It's something that has to be on the international agenda all the time.

To put it mildly, the world is a mess

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

Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

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.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.