Madeleine Albright Quotes

My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.

You see before you the former future Secretary of State.

Personally, I think Mitt Romney would be a great secretary of state.

Mitt Romney looks like a secretary of state. He looks like the chancellor of the exchequer.

If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state.

There is something to be said for the power of figureheads. After Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, a record number of countries posted female ambassadors to the U.S. - some of whom have dubbed this 'the Hillary effect.'

Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because I love this job. I'm totally dedicated to the work that we are doing in Australia's name around the world, and I believe that we have achieved many good results for Australia, and I'm proud of them.

In Vermont, Governor Madeleine Kunin has given years of service to our state after becoming the state's first female governor in 1985. She is an inspiration to girls throughout Vermont and the country in allowing them to know that the opportunities they have are unlimited.

One of the nice things about no longer being Secretary of State is that I can actually answer your questions.

I was not interested in being minister of defense or minister of foreign affairs.

I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position.

I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.

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.'

Rudolph Giuliani will be the first Secretary of State whose last public office was mayor, the most thoroughly domestic public office that we have.

I never much cared for politics. I love policy, and I love international policy in particular. I got to be Secretary of State; it really doesn't get much better than that. I love what I do. I love being a professor.

Secretary of State, maybe they [Republicans] would consider Steve Hadley for that job.

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

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

I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.

For me, personally, it has been humbling since I became First Minister to speak to women and girls and have them tell me how much it means to them to have a woman in the top job in politics in Scotland.

I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.

I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.

If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.

As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere, little girls would come up to me and say, 'I want to be like you one day, I want to be a doctor.' Now, they tell me, 'I want to be president just like you.' All of us can dream as big as we want.

When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.