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.'
Madeleine AlbrightThe stunning part was that one time Neil McElroy the Secretary of Defense who was the father of one of our classmates spoke and basically at commencement, he told us all that our job after graduation was to get married and have interesting sons...and we all found that hard to believe.
Madeleine AlbrightI think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building.
Madeleine AlbrightThere is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women.
Madeleine AlbrightThe main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
Madeleine AlbrightI went to a girls high school and I went to a women's college and when I first started teaching at Georgetown it had been a single sex school and so they wanted to have some women professors when they went co-ed, and so I originally was hired to start a program there, and really encourage women to go into foreign policy. I always have done that, and I really do think that things are better when women are involved.
Madeleine Albright