Madeleine Albright Quotes About Foreign Policy

Quotes about: Foreign Policy

• The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.

  Madeleine Albright

  Issues, Feminist, Reason

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

• I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

  Madeleine Albright

  Iraq, Numbers, Vietnam

• I felt that America's duty was not to try to do everything itself, but to foster a sense of commitment that would bring out the best in every country.

  Madeleine Albright

  Country, Commitment, America

• the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

  Madeleine Albright

  Purpose, Want, Foreign Policy

  Madeleine Albright (2009). “Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box”, p.20, Harper Collins

• There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess.

  Madeleine Albright

  Spring, Reality, Community

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. July 27, 2014.

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

  Madeleine Albright

  Jobs, Best Job, World

• I 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

  Girl, Sex, Teaching

  Interview with Maeve Allsup, www.amwordmag.com. October 20, 2015.

• People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

  Madeleine Albright

  People, Foreign Policy, Harder

• Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in terms of understanding hard science for people who are studying climate change, or people who are interested in health policy or food security, or people who care about education.

  Madeleine Albright

  People, Political, Understanding

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

• I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, Issues, Able

• Armageddon is not a foreign policy.

  Madeleine Albright

  Armageddon, Foreign Policy, Policy

  Speech at Harvard Divinity School, April 11, 2007.

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