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.

— Madeleine Albright
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Madeleine Albright Quotes

There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.

— Madeleine Albright
Inspirational for Women Sisterhood

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.

— Madeleine Albright

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

— Madeleine Albright

What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.

— Madeleine Albright

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

— 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.

— 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.

— Madeleine Albright

US is a very religious country. Separation of church and state is part of our credo, but that it is hard to understand since our money says “In God we trust” and every President says “God bless America”.

— Madeleine Albright

I don’t actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized.

— Madeleine Albright

I don’t think people should think of women’s issues as auxiliary issues – they are central.

— Madeleine Albright

So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.

— 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.

— Madeleine Albright

There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.

— Madeleine Albright

I get up every morning and I’m grateful for everything that has happened. I go through my list about being grateful for my children and grandchildren, and for the really remarkable life that I have been able to have.

— Madeleine Albright

What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.

— 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.

— Madeleine Albright

I got married, I really waited a long time – three days after I graduated.

— Madeleine Albright

After the Cold War, to rally the American people to understand that we had to be a part of solutions. It’s one thing to say that we have to run everything, it’s another to say we don’t want anything to do with it.

— Madeleine Albright

It is an unfortunate fact that in many parts of the world women are considered property. An awful lot of injustice is obviously due to that; not just women’s status in the home, but all kinds of laws that are even more discriminating.

— Madeleine Albright

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.

— Madeleine Albright
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