I have very set and consistent principles, but I am flexible on tactics. I like to get the job done. Madeleine Albright More Quotes by Madeleine Albright More Quotes From Madeleine Albright I think the hardest part [is] the priorities. There are an awful lot of things to do [being Secretary of State]. Madeleine Albright priorities awful thinking [John Kerry] actually stole my line because when I became Secretary of State, I said, 'I hope my heels will fill Warren Christopher's shoes.' So he reversed that. Madeleine Albright shoes lines states As far as barriers once I joined the government I was very lucky because I had all of my credentials together, I was Doctor Albright... So when somebody wanted the one woman I made sure that they knew I was dependable and qualified. Madeleine Albright doctors government together You have to learn to interrupt because you aren't going to get called on. 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Madeleine Albright men rooms world I got married three days after graduation, and the first thing I did what I was expected to do which was to work on a small newspaper. So we were in Chicago where my husband worked for the Chicago Sun-Times and we were having dinner with his editor and he said 'So what are you 'gonna do honey?' and I said 'I'm going to work on a newspaper', and he said 'I don't think so", because Newspaper Guild regulations said that I couldn't work on the same newspaper as my husband. Madeleine Albright editors husband thinking In terms intellectually, [what] shaped my life was the whole Munich thing [the Munich Agreement] that I knew about all my life, in terms of how large powers make decisions that affect small countries, and the unintended consequences of that. The other part is I knew about the Holocaust. l just didn't know that it applied to my family. But that did affect the way I thought about what I was seeing as ethnic cleansing in the Balkans; there's no question about that. Madeleine Albright holocaust agreement country There were always jokes about Hillary Clinton channeling Eleanor Roosevelt, but Eleanor Roosevelt was really instrumental at the UN, and would want to meet with various other delegates. Madeleine Albright eleanor clinton want Even though there were three newspapers in Chicago at the time, he said 'you wouldn't want to compete with your husband," and so instead of doing what I might do now in that situation, I basically saluted and found other things to do. Madeleine Albright chicago husband might I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that. Madeleine Albright force democracy war The stunning part was that one time Neil McElroy the Secretary of Defense who was the father of one of our classmates spoke and basically at commencement, he told us all that our job after graduation was to get married and have interesting sons...and we all found that hard to believe. Madeleine Albright jobs believe father John Kerry knows more about more subjects than an awful lot of people. But I think it's a very hard job [Secretary of State]. Madeleine Albright jobs people thinking One of the things I write about a bit in my Madam Secretary memoir is on Rwanda, where I was an instructed ambassador at the U.N., and my instructions were to not vote for increased forces there, and I didn't like my instructions. So I got up and called Washington and said, "Change my instructions," and they didn't. Madeleine Albright ambassadors vote writing 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 teaching sex I do consider myself a feminist. I know the word has weird implications for people now, but I do think that its important to have women involved, whether its business or public service or...anything. Madeleine Albright feminist people thinking I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not. Madeleine Albright backgrounds people thinking
