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Madeleine Albright Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.”
— Madeleine Albright, Madeleine Albright
Tagged: Books, emotions, interesting, Feelings
“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women”
— Madeleine Albright, Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team
Tagged: feminism, Women, empowerment, Helping People
“The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.”
— Madeleine Albright, Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
Tagged: voice, force, USA
“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.”
— Madeleine Albright, Quoted in Time
Tagged: Wome, empowerment, Equality
“It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.”
— Madeleine Albright, Finding Your Own Voice: Insightful Quotes from Uncommon Women
Tagged: feminism, strength, Women, Courage
“What really troubles me is that democracy is getting a bad name because it is identified with imposition and occupation. I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.”
— Madeleine Albright, Interview with Deborah Solomon
Tagged: Democracy, Freedom, Choice
“We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future, and we see the danger here to all of us.”
— Madeleine Albright
Tagged: Strong Nation, strength, Unity
“I wonder,’ wrote Eleanor Roosevelt, ‘whether we have decided to hide behind neutrality? It is safe, perhaps, but I am not always sure it is right to be safe. . . . Every time a nation which has known freedom loses it, other free nations lose something, too.”
— Madeleine Albright, Prague Winter
Tagged: Wonder, Neutrailty, Hiding, Freedom, nation
“If diplomacy is the art of persuading others to act as we would wish, effective foreign policy requires that we comprehend why others act as they do.”
— Madeleine Albright
Tagged: Diplomacy, Persuasion, Policy
“There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants may violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected.”
— Madeleine Albright, Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership
Tagged: difference, Morality, Crime, Criminals, Trespassers, Justice, dignity, Respect
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