“I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be...” — Madeleine Albright Quote

“I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.”

“Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.”

“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.”

“The costly unilateralism of the younger Bush presidency led to a decade of war in the Middle East and the derailment of American foreign policy at large.”

“American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.”

“I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.”