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

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 can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.

When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.