Quotes from Madeleine Albright

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren't very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the 'my way or the highway' approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

Marx's dream of a workers' paradise had degenerated into an Orwellian nightmare; conformity was the highest good, informants kept watch on every block, whole countries lived behind barbed wire, and governments insisted that down was up and black was white.

I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that.