Madeleine Albright Quotes

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

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

There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.

I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.

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

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.

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

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

The diplomatic relations upon which our present system of international comity is based are being encountered by new forces and combinations which are fast rendering them impotent and antiquated

Wherever people are free, foreign and domestic policy are inseparable.

… make Englishmen cognizant of the processes through which the progressive destinies of Europe are being worked out, so that whenever European Affairs may call for interference, they may be in no doubt as to the course to be pursued.

Foreign policy involves a good deal of domestic policy.

No American president will ever pay a political price for choosing national security over world opinion.

People think that it only takes an American decision to solve this or that problem [in foreign affairs].

The world is a mess, and while there is no simple pill America can administer to fix things, what we know is that there is significant room for progressives to articulate a foreign policy vision that is truly our own.

Like other countries in the world, China must uphold its own sovereignty, territorial integrity and development interests. At the same time, we are willing to properly handle differences and disagreements in state-to-state relations.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers.

When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.