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Jewelry and pins have been wor...

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

Madeleine Albright 253 quotes

Because of my parents' love of...

Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.

Madeleine Albright 253 quotes

If you look at U.S. history th...

If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.

Madeleine Albright 253 quotes

I think women want to take car...

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

Madeleine Albright 253 quotes

I think the personal relations...

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.

Madeleine Albright 253 quotes

I didn't want to set up a wome...

I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

Madeleine Albright 253 quotes

I did go to Wellesley, a women...

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

Madeleine Albright 253 quotes

Women can't do everything at t...

Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

Madeleine Albright 253 quotes

This is pure speculation, but ...

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

Madeleine Albright 253 quotes

Women have to be active listen...

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

Madeleine Albright 253 quotes

I have said this many times, t...

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Madeleine Albright 253 quotes

I saw what happened when a dic...

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.

Madeleine Albright 253 quotes

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown...

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

Madeleine Albright 253 quotes

I can't imagine what it is lik...

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.

Madeleine Albright 253 quotes

I think that we had a differen...

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.

Madeleine Albright 253 quotes

I know that war is very cruel ...

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

Madeleine Albright 253 quotes

I am a beneficiary of the Amer...

I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

Madeleine Albright 253 quotes

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afr...

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.

Madeleine Albright 253 quotes

But I do not believe that the ...

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

Madeleine Albright 253 quotes

I love being a woman and I was...

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

Madeleine Albright 253 quotes

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