Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.

There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.

I never dreamed about one day becoming Secretary of State. It's not that I was modest; it's just that I had never seen a Secretary of State in a skirt.

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

As strong as the United States is, we can't deal with terrorism alone.