I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.
Madeleine AlbrightUS is a very religious country. Separation of church and state is part of our credo, but that it is hard to understand since our money says "In God we trust" and every President says "God bless America".
Madeleine AlbrightThe best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.
Madeleine AlbrightIn terms intellectually, [what] shaped my life was the whole Munich thing [the Munich Agreement] that I knew about all my life, in terms of how large powers make decisions that affect small countries, and the unintended consequences of that. The other part is I knew about the Holocaust. l just didn't know that it applied to my family. But that did affect the way I thought about what I was seeing as ethnic cleansing in the Balkans; there's no question about that.
Madeleine Albright