Madeleine Albright

I have felt it is a mistake always to cutoff relations with a country or not have that conversation, because that is what diplomacy is about.

I think we need to keep calling out what happened on Khashoggi and what our intelligence communities have been saying.

It is not irreversible, but it requires contact and experience.

I am very sad that we withdrew from the Iran nuclear agreement, and I am very worried about Saudi Arabia trying to obtain nuclear weapons.

NATO is not just a military alliance, it is a political alliance, and democratic values are a very important part of it.

I find hypernationalism a very dangerous aspect as far as democracy is concerned.

Viktor Orban, who is a demagogue in many things, has taken advantage of that anger in order to get support for policies that are completely undemocratic.

I do think that we do need to figure out some way to make sure that we do not have a nuclear confrontation.

Democracy really depends on compromise and coalition building. And they said, you mean like you guys?

I am troubled by the fact that divisions in our societies... are being exacerbated by those who identify themselves with one group at the expense of another.

There should never be a meeting of any kind with the Chinese where human rights are not raised in it.

I do think the following thing: There was not a time that I had a meeting with the Chinese, either at the U.N. or later, that I did not raise the issue of human rights.