Statesman Quotes

One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.
People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.
Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.
Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.
The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.
The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren't very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.
The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.
The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.
This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.
To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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