Madeleine Albright Quotes

The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Globalization is blurring the distinction between foreign affairs and domestic politics.

You do not build a foreign policy based on one man.

The art of foreign policy is to help guide the inevitable.

You cannot have individual foreign policy. You cannot have celebrity foreign policy.

You don’t do foreign policy unilaterally. Foreign policy is a team sport.

International policy does not aim at exploiting local, specific conditions to widen zones of influence and create difficulties for another country. The goal of international policy is to insure universal fulfillment of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man" and to prevent a sharpening of international tensions and a strengthening of militarist and nationalist tendencies.

Foreign policy involves a good deal of domestic policy.

Even allies don’t share every single interest that you have. That’s a law of nature in the international system. They will tell you most of what you need to know but there may be some things that they don’t tell you that you need to know in order to formulate your policy as wisely as you can.

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

The European vision is the United Nations' vision.

For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world.

To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.

Turkey can be a bridge to regimes and actions the United States can't reach. Turkey can talk to people the United States can't talk to.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

In these days of intimate relations, of economic stress and of intense desire to protect national interests and advance national opportunity, the treatment of questions which, from a legal standpoint, are domestic, often seriously affects international relations. The principle, each nation for itself to the full extent of its powers, is the principle of war, not of peace.