"Because of my parents’ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin."
― Madeleine Albright
Topic(s):
Experience
More From Madeleine Albright
- "Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen."
- "For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world – but it doesn’t happen twice."
- "Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‘tough this and tough that.’ Then there is this business about ‘gooey.’ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist."
More In Experience
- "And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high."― Ayrton Senna
- "The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die."― Gael Garcia Bernal
- "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."― Helen Keller