Madeleine Albright

America must set the right example.

Today, we must support democracy to make the world safe, and we should do so with confidence.

Our rivals will not soon let the world forget the spectacle of American democracy under siege from within.

A little more than a century ago, a U.S. President asked our armed forces to cross the ocean to make the world safe for democracy.

I have always been a grateful American, and I was taught by my father to appreciate both the fragility of democracy and its resilience.

I think part of the thing we have this tendency to say, and I do it, 'the Serbs,' when the bottom line is, that they are not all the same...

I do believe that we need to see this as an opportunity, and I think that the pandemic has, in fact, proven the importance of having more cooperative activity.

I said, no, you used to be the problem, now you are part of the solution, and we need to work together on other parts of the world.

The importance of democracy is that it establishes a rule of law.

I do think that a new Administration does have a chance to really examine the relationship, and not be kind of, you know, rose-colored glasses about it.

You cannot impose democracy. That is an oxymoron.

On Kosovo, our shared goal should be for it to become a normal country in the United Nations, part of the regular international system, and with all the rights of international law to defend its territory.