274 Quotes by Madeline Albright

I think it would be a genuine mistake if the focus today was on confrontation without thinking of the remarkable aspect of yesterday's meeting, ... Views were exchanged, problems were discussed without polemics.

and then we assessed what are the possibilities for getting out of this impasse, in order to create the proper conditions for resuming the peace talks.

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

I would like to say how very pleased I am to be able to spend this day in North Carolina, ... I would like to thank the chairman for inviting me.

A plan that is nothing but a way to drive trucks through loopholes is unacceptable to the United States,

a very strong endorsement... of the basic objectives established (by the 19-nation NATO alliance) ... to stop the repression in Kosovo.

will have no choice but to take strong measures.

A vote at any time to oppose an authorization (of troops) would be seen by both sides (in Kosovo) as a green light to resume fighting,

When the Burmese government tries to blame the victims for the crime, and say that (democracy activist) Aung San Suu Kyi and her party are responsible for their own repression, I can only reply that much the same was once said about Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel, ... The world is not fooled. And we must not be silent.