I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.
Madeleine AlbrightWhile democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
Madeleine AlbrightIn terms intellectually, [what] shaped my life was the whole Munich thing [the Munich Agreement] that I knew about all my life, in terms of how large powers make decisions that affect small countries, and the unintended consequences of that. The other part is I knew about the Holocaust. l just didn't know that it applied to my family. But that did affect the way I thought about what I was seeing as ethnic cleansing in the Balkans; there's no question about that.
Madeleine Albright