Madeleine Albright: “Corruption is the cancer of democracy, and I think it is something that has to be worked on very actively.”

Building and sustaining democracy should be a first principle, not an afterthought, in U.S. foreign and national security policy.

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

America must set the right example.