274 Quotes by Madeline Albright

Israelis and Palestinians have cooperated in the past to achieve historic agreements as well as practical cooperation on the ground, ... They must find a way again to end the current psychology of confrontation and begin to restore the psychology of peace-making. That is what we will be trying to achieve in these meetings.

I always do truly think about the fact that I have Thomas Jefferson's job, ... That is the part that always undoes me, because it is so hard to comprehend.

I assure you if we decide to use force, Russia will not veto it.

I should not have worried. ... We were welcomed, given refuge and provided the chance to make new friends and build new lives in freedom. For this priceless opportunity, and all that has since come with it, I will forever be grateful.

I think the important part is to focus on what has to be done, which is to get the international community with the Bosnians to work on economic reconstruction.

I am very glad we had the meeting,

is going to have operational control of the procedures and Mr. (Richard) Butler will have the independence he had before. And as the president has said, the proof is in the testing. But this is no time for U.N. bashing.

I think it's very important that we do everything we can to strengthen and unify the opposition. This is what we talked about, ... We obviously are going to stay in very close touch over the coming weeks.

The very promise of it (membership) has given the nations of central and Eastern Europe an incentive to solve their own problems,