Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.

Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and profound than any party affiliation.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

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.

We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.

Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.

To put it mildly, the world is a mess.

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

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath.

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

There is a large element of me in every role I do.

Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, With never a thought of sorrow; The old goes out, but the glad young year Comes merrily in tomorrow.

I know how well I can play. I don't mention myself with the other players. I mention myself with the best.

The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.

To err is human, to forgive supine.

Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.