You can't just think that you will get a job for no good reason... And I think that the other part is you have to work your way up, you know I did a lot of Xeroxing and getting coffee...I always did what I was asked to do. I delivered. People knew that I would get things done and get them done well. And that is a big part of our resumes, are based on being responsible and being willing to do what needed to be done.

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

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.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East.

I am such a political person.