The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTAs a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
-
-
The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT -
Peace is not a spectator sport.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT -
Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT -
Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT -
Especially when we are afraid, angry, or confused, we may be tempted to give away bits of our freedom—or, less painfully, somebody else’s freedom—in the quest for direction and order.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT -
Though I had never written a memoir, I was confident that given enough time, I could do a serviceable job. Not elegant, but blunt, informative and funnier than most readers would expect.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT -
I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT -
This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT -
How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT -
Fascism did not die with Mussolini, he warned. Hitler is finished, but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT -
Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT -
I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT -
The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT -
There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT -
The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT