Madeleine Albright Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.

  Madeleine Albright

  War, Thinking, Economic Sanctions

  "60 Minutes", May 12, 1996.

• I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.

  Madeleine Albright

  Girl, War, World

• I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

  Madeleine Albright

  Country, War, Fighting

• jewels have played a colorful part in the evolution of world affairs. Because precious stones tend to inspire both admiration and greed, leaders have found convenient excuses for seeking them and have used them to impress crowds, reward friends, deprive foes, forge alliances, and justify war. Jewels may find their highest expression in the decorative arts, but they have also earned a place in the art of the possible.

  Madeleine Albright

  Art, War, Expression

• After the Cold War, to rally the American people to understand that we had to be a part of solutions. It's one thing to say that we have to run everything, it's another to say we don't want anything to do with it.

  Madeleine Albright

  Running, War, People

  "Global Public Square" with Fareed Zakaria, globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com. November 02, 2008.

• I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist who worries a lot.

  Madeleine Albright

  War, Reading, Thinking

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

• The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

  Madeleine Albright

  War, Gymnastics, Elephants

• The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq.

  Madeleine Albright

  War, Iraq, Troops

• I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that.

  Madeleine Albright

  War, Democracy, Force

• I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

  Madeleine Albright

  War, Home, Life Is Hard

• The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.

  Madeleine Albright

  War, Iran, Iraq

  "Albright Calls for Diplomacy in Iraq" by Brenda C. Maldonado, www.thecrimson.com. April 12, 2007.

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