But I am curious, do you feel like you've been held to a different standard because you're a woman? I did have a solid foreign policy background. But I think there did continue to be questions about whether a woman could be secretary of state. I didn't have any problems with foreign governments. I did arrive in a large plane that said United States of America and they knew that if they were going to do foreign policy they at least had to talk to me.
I had more problems with the men in our own government. Not because I think they were male chauvinist pigs or anything like that, I think that they had just known me too long. I had been in Washington a long time. I knew their wives well. I was a carpool mother. They would come to my house for dinner which either I had cooked or helped to pass around the plates or clear. I had then been a staffer on the Hill.
I made a lot of coffee. I think some of them thought, "How did she get to be secretary of state when I should be secretary of state?
When I argued for something, a couple of them actually would say, "Don't be so emotional. So, yes, definitely. But I did have a lot of friends who gave me the time of day. And obviously none of it would have happened without President Clinton. In the Oval Office, he would say, "I want to hear what Madeleine has to say.
Here you are in the Oval Office and it still took a man to call on you to get your voice out there. I think this has happened to every single woman, if you're the only woman in the room and there is a discussion going on, you think to yourself, "I'll say something. Then you think, "No, I won't say it because it will sound stupid. After I had done that during the prior administration, kind of sat in meetings, I go to teach at Georgetown and I decided that my motto was going to be, for everybody, that you have to interrupt.
Partially what happens in big meetings, if you raise your hand, you don't get called on. But if you're going to interrupt you have to know what you're going to say.
So, I start teaching and I said nobody can raise his or her hand, you have to interrupt. At the U. Do you think that had to do with being a woman? First of all, I'm not sure that people fully understand — male or female, when you go to a foreign country, you do begin with a bunch of small talk. If you are doing your job, you have prepared to say any number of things.
You have talking points, which you have memorized. So I had a trick, which was, after too much of the small talk, I would say, "I have come a long way so I must be frank. It was usually something about human rights or some aspect of governance that wasn't working.
I was fairly direct, I have to say, because I think that sometimes it's important in terms of the tone. I don't think frankly that I was rougher, tougher or anything than any man. I just think people were surprised to hear that language from a woman. Well, I think the Chinese issue is a very complicated one. In every campaign there are some negative things about China. After Albright's term as secretary of state ended in January , she became chairman of the board for the National Democratic Institute.
Albright is also a well-known public speaker. According to the Washington Speakers Bureau, "Madeleine Albright speaks with humor, insight, and eloquence about her life and career … she provides audiences with a unique, no-holds-barred account of service at the highest levels of the American government.
In a comment about her new teaching position Albright said, "I am very pleased … to have the opportunity to teach, and be inspired by, inquiring students. Blackman, Ann. New York, NY: Scribner, Dobbs, Michael.
New York: H. Holt and Co. Toggle navigation. Early political career Albright began her political career by working for the unsuccessful presidential campaign in of Senator Edmund S. Ambassador to the United Nations When Bill Clinton — sought the presidential nomination in , Albright supported him. Another career After Albright's term as secretary of state ended in January , she became chairman of the board for the National Democratic Institute.
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