Madeleine Albright
I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder . . . Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.Collection: Joy
What you have to be concerned about are the extremists. On the whole, we need to understand the more moderate Muslims before they become more radicalized.Collection: Needs
Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.Collection: Revenge
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.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Thinking
A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.Collection: Diplomats
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.Collection: Attitude
I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.Collection: People
There's nobody who's had a resume like [Hillary Clinton] that's run for president.Collection: Running
The process of education in the oldest profession in the world is like any other educational process, in that it requires time andeffort and patience; it can only be acquired by taking one step at a time, though the steps become accelerated after the first few.Collection: Education
Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.Collection: Responsibility
Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.Collection: Political
There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess.Collection: Spring
China is in its own category - too big to ignore, too repressive to embrace, difficult to influence, and very, very proud.Collection: Proud
We must help women in every society to have their voices heard.Collection: Voice
Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.Collection: Glasses
the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.Collection: Purpose
The cover-up, more than the initial wrongdoing, is what is most likely to bring you down.Collection: Cover Ups
There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women.Collection: Men
I am the only high-ranking U.S. official to ever meet with Kim Jong-il, and we are the same height and both wear high heels.Collection: High Heels
Only in America could a refugee girl from Central Europe become secretary of state.Collection: Girl
Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth.Collection: Fun
I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.Collection: Believe
When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.Collection: Issues
Though I am flattered that Governor Palin has chosen to cite me as a source of wisdom, what I said had nothing to do with politics. This is yet another example of McCain and Palin distorting the truth, and all the more reason to remember that this campaign is not about gender, it is about which candidate has an agenda that will improve the lives of all Americans, including women. The truth is, if you care about the status of women in our society and in our troubled economy, the best choice by far is Obama-Biden.Collection: Choices
There were always jokes about Hillary Clinton channeling Eleanor Roosevelt, but Eleanor Roosevelt was really instrumental at the UN, and would want to meet with various other delegates.Collection: Want
As a child, I really did see buildings bombed, and what makes me different from an American that's the same age as I am is that I can understand what happens when there is fighting in a way that they couldn't.Collection: Children
Mahmoud Abbas is a puppet.Collection: Puppets
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.Collection: Husband
Today, I say that no nation in the world need be left out of the global system we are constructing.Collection: Needs
My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.Collection: Regret
Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in terms of understanding hard science for people who are studying climate change, or people who are interested in health policy or food security, or people who care about education.Collection: People
The system he (President Hosni Mubarak) is recommending would make it virtually impossible for truly independent parties to participate. Sham democracy should be exposed for what it truly is.Collection: Party
We have to understand where we have strategic relationships that require us to take a different approach. I guess the easiest way to describe it is: different strokes for different folks.Collection: Different
The Framework Agreement is one of the best things the [Clinton] Administration has done because it stopped a nuclear weapons program in North Korea.Collection: Agreement
In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed its actions were justified for strategic reasons, but the coup was clearly a setback for Iran's political development and it is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs.Collection: America
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.Collection: Taken
In A Man With a Pipe, my brother observed that although my father had been seen as intellectual and my mother more a creature of temperament, she had often been the more levelheaded of the two. In sum, we miss them as we love them, equally and always.Collection: Mother
We went to the same college so I know [Hillary Clinton's] study habits, but when she was first lady of Arkansas, she did a lot of things already for children, and she was head of the Children's Defense Fund, and that's how I first heard her or met her, she was very very involved in really a very important social program to do something about children and women and education.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Believe
I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.Collection: Personal Knowledge
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.Collection: Jobs
I got married, I really waited a long time - three days after I graduated.Collection: Long
So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.Collection: Generations
The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.Collection: War
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.Collection: Thinking
I bought ... the pins with my three daughters in mind; the ships are beautiful, graceful, and moving along at full sail, having long since left home port.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Girl
It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East.Collection: Middle East