I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.

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.'

I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

Today, I say that no nation in the world need be left out of the global system we are constructing.