“The bottom line is, the more we have a cadre of women moving up the scale, and it doesn't seem threatening, and people realize that women actually work much harder than men, and realize that they need more women in these jobs, I think that goes away.” PeopleThinkingMenNeedsSeemsJobsMovingRealizingLinesHarderBottomScalesThreateningBottom LineMoving UpCadre Author:Madeleine Albright
“We are very hip on the fact that America's always No. 1. On this we are not, in terms of the number of women in our legislative branches and obviously as head of state. We need to push on that. I hate to say this: It isn't all men's fault. I think some of it is our own attitude and approach. Some of it very healthy, that women want to make choices about their lives and how they want to spend their time, and what they value.” ThinkingMenWantNeedsStatesFactsAmericaValuesHateChoicesTermNumbersAttitudeHealthyApproachI HateFaultsHipsBranchesWomen WantHead Of StateLegislative Branch Author:Madeleine Albright
“The world would be entirely different if it were run by women. I think it is true that we are more seeking consensus and don't have such big egos and have a variety of different ways of trying to get along. But anybody who says that the world would be better has forgotten high school. It depends on who the women are.” IfsThinkingWorldWayTryingDifferentBigsWould BeRunningSchoolDependsEgoHigh SchoolForgottenSeekingVarietyDifferent WaysConsensusBig Ego Author:Madeleine Albright
“The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think men do that particularly.” ThinkingMenHappenedProjectsWeaknessTendenciesAnother Woman Author:Madeleine Albright
“I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building.” ThinkingBuildingLaddersLadder Of Success Author:Madeleine Albright
“I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.” PeopleThinkingShouldIssues Author:Madeleine Albright
“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.” PeopleThinkingNeedsIdeasGenerations Author:Madeleine Albright
“I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.” ThinkingTryingBelieveFactsIndividualI BelieveWaste Author:Madeleine Albright
“I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist who worries a lot.” PeopleThinkingWarReadingDifferencesWorryMaking A DifferenceOptimist Author:Madeleine Albright
“Leaders are made by the situations they are involved in. I think that some rise to the occasion and some do not.” ThinkingMadeSituationLeaderInvolvedOccasions Author:Madeleine Albright
“I do consider myself a feminist. I know the word has weird implications for people now, but I do think that its important to have women involved, whether its business or public service or...anything.” PeopleThinkingKnowsImportantInvolvedFeministImplicationsPublic Service Author:Madeleine Albright
“I went to a girls high school and I went to a women's college and when I first started teaching at Georgetown it had been a single sex school and so they wanted to have some women professors when they went co-ed, and so I originally was hired to start a program there, and really encourage women to go into foreign policy. I always have done that, and I really do think that things are better when women are involved.” ThinkingFirstsDoneWantedSchoolGirlSexTeachingPolicyCollegeInvolvedHigh SchoolProgramProfessorsForeign PolicyGeorgetown Author:Madeleine Albright
“Well we're good friends so I'm a little prejudice, but I think [Hillary Clinton] is incredibly qualified, and better prepared to be president than almost anyone who's ever run frankly.” ThinkingWellsLittlesRunningPresidentPrejudicePreparedClintonGood FriendQualified Author:Madeleine Albright
“I do think that she [Hillary Clinton] will prove that she's the best, whether she's in the White House or somewhere else. I think it will very much be a historic moment, when we are able to say that we actually have done something like put a woman in the White House. Its very interesting to think about considering its taken us long as it has.” ThinkingLongDoneMomentsAbleHouseWhiteInterestingTakenProveClintonWhite HouseConsideringHistoricVery InterestingSomewhere Else Author:Madeleine Albright
“People didn't think that a woman could be the Secretary of State, when my name was out there...but then the Arab Ambassadors at the UN said 'We have no problem dealing with Ambassador Albright, and we would have no problem dealing with Secretary Albright.'” PeopleThinkingSaidStatesProblemNamesSecretaryNo ProblemAmbassadors Author:Madeleine Albright
“I got married three days after graduation, and the first thing I did what I was expected to do which was to work on a small newspaper. So we were in Chicago where my husband worked for the Chicago Sun-Times and we were having dinner with his editor and he said 'So what are you 'gonna do honey?' and I said 'I'm going to work on a newspaper', and he said 'I don't think so", because Newspaper Guild regulations said that I couldn't work on the same newspaper as my husband.” ThinkingFirstsSaidThreeSunHusbandMarriedDinnerExpectedNewspapersMy HusbandEditorsChicagoHoneyRegulationGoing To WorkGuilds Author:Madeleine Albright
“You can't just think that you will get a job for no good reason... And I think that the other part is you have to work your way up, you know I did a lot of Xeroxing and getting coffee...I always did what I was asked to do. I delivered. People knew that I would get things done and get them done well. And that is a big part of our resumes, are based on being responsible and being willing to do what needed to be done.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWellsReasonDoneBigsJobsWillingNeededResponsibleCoffeeThings DoneBeing ResponsibleResumes Author:Madeleine Albright
“I think that the Middle East is the largest piece of unfinished business that we all have. I happen to believe in the democratization process.” ThinkingBelieveHappensProcessPiecesMiddleEastMiddle EastUnfinishedDemocratizationUnfinished Business Author:Madeleine Albright
“I think the jobs [at the top] are unbelievably difficult, and there is nothing easier than second-guessing people.” PeopleThinkingJobsDifficultEasierGuessingSecond Guessing Author:Madeleine Albright
“I consider it my patriotic duty as an ordinary citizen - not as Secretary of State - to ask questions. I think we have to ask ourselves the tough questions.” ThinkingStatesAsksDutyCitizensOrdinaryToughPatrioticSecretaryOrdinary CitizensTough Questions Author:Madeleine Albright
“I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.” PeopleThinkingProductsBackgrounds Author:Madeleine Albright
“John Kerry knows more about more subjects than an awful lot of people. But I think it's a very hard job [Secretary of State].” PeopleThinkingKnowsHardStatesJobsSubjectsAwfulSecretaryJohn Kerry Author:Madeleine Albright
“I think the hardest part [is] the priorities. There are an awful lot of things to do [being Secretary of State].” ThinkingStatesPrioritiesHardestAwfulThings To DoSecretary Author:Madeleine Albright
“You [young people] all are just much more internationally-minded and traveled and knowledgeable in languages than any other previous generation. So many of you are already doing a lot of international relations, I think. I so believe in student networks, and people that either study abroad or come to the United States to study, and the relationships that you all develop. You learn a lot from each other, but you all will see each other again in jobs along the way. And I think that makes a big difference. I so believe in what students can do.” PeopleThinkingWayBelieveStatesBigsJobsYoungLanguageCan DoDifferencesUnitedUnited StatesStudyGenerationsStudentsRelationInternationalTraveledInternational RelationsKnowledgeablePrevious GenerationsStudy Abroad Author:Madeleine Albright
“A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.” PeopleThinkingTogetherMovingGamesBallsRelationStrategyInternationalChessBunchInternational RelationsBilliards Author:Madeleine Albright
“I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.” ThinkingWayAdvantageCapabilityBeing A WomanPersonal RelationshipsTelling It Like It Is Author:Madeleine Albright
“Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.” ThinkingMenWantWellsMaySoundStupidTablesMadMeetingsBrilliant Author:Madeleine Albright
“Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.” IfsThinkingWorldWellsMeanWholeWould BeRunningSchoolGoalConversationHigh SchoolForgottenWhole WorldToneSetting Goals Author:Madeleine Albright
“The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.” ThinkingBookOrderLaughingCrySpeechCheer Author:Madeleine Albright
“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.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLittlesEnoughEvilHarderAbsolutesKillingInnocentGood Enough Author:Madeleine Albright
“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.” ThinkingWayYearsIdeasCountryProblemAmericaApproachEightSolveMy WayOther CountriesEvidentHighwaysDiggingWorking With Others Author:Madeleine Albright
“I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.” ThinkingMenWayGrossNetworkingGeneralizationMaking Friends Author:Madeleine Albright
“I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.” ThinkingNeedsPresidentViewsEffortTeamDifficultyVarietyInspirational TeamDissonanceTeam Effort Author:Madeleine Albright
“I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.” ThinkingWorldTryingKindDifferentCommunityViewsCenturyPerspectiveConflictInternational21st CenturyAlliancesInternational CommunityDifferent ViewsHaving Strength Author:Madeleine Albright
“I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.” ThinkingDoneAbleTermIssuesPolicyForeign PolicyPersonal Relationships Author:Madeleine Albright
“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.'” ThinkingStatesSeriousConversationWeatherTiesHead Of State Author:Madeleine Albright
“I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.” ThinkingWarHardChoicesIraqAntiwarWorth ItEconomic Sanctions Author:Madeleine Albright
“But I think there are some who believe they are actually protecting women, you know, and that it is better for women to be taken care of. I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important. And frankly, I don’t understand — I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat — but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.” ThinkingKnowsWantBelieveMeanI CanImportantDoneCareVoiceTakenVoteDemocratTake CareCardsRomneyWomen Want Author:Madeleine Albright
“No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.” ThinkingDifferentDoneWeaponsMassDestructionIraqDictatorSaddamHusseinWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionWmdWmds In Iraq Author:Madeleine Albright
“I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.” IfsThinkingWorldPersonsDifferentWould BeRunningSchoolHigh SchoolForgotten Author:Madeleine Albright
“I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsLeaderDignityIndispensable Author:Madeleine Albright
“There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.” ThinkingKindPersonsSometimesGoing AwayMadeleines Author:Madeleine Albright
“I think I've revived the costume-jewelry industry.” ThinkingIndustryCostumesJewelry Author:Madeleine Albright
“I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.” ThinkingWantImportantDoneCareVoiceTake CareWomen Want Author:Madeleine Albright
