The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren't very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

You have to learn to interrupt because you aren't going to get called on.

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'm a problem-solver.

Our life comes in segments, and we have to understand that we can have it all if we're not trying to do it all at once.

Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America.