While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
Madeleine AlbrightI bought ... the pins with my three daughters in mind; the ships are beautiful, graceful, and moving along at full sail, having long since left home port.
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 AlbrightOur 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.
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