Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

I can't go out with a Republican.

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

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.

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

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

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women." (Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women." (Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.