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.

People didn't think that a woman could be the Secretary of State, when my name was out there...but then the Arab Ambassadors at the UN said 'We have no problem dealing with Ambassador Albright, and we would have no problem dealing with Secretary Albright.'

As far as barriers once I joined the government I was very lucky because I had all of my credentials together, I was Doctor Albright... So when somebody wanted the one woman I made sure that they knew I was dependable and qualified.

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

I'm a problem-solver.

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.

The cover-up, more than the initial wrongdoing, is what is most likely to bring you down.