Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.

We don't understand enough about the Islam religion and Muslim world.

Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

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 was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U.S.] secretary of state of the 21st century. I was the first secretary of state to own a Web site, to visit Internet cafes, and to make Internet access a part of policy.