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Madeleine Albright talks about her pins of power

Former secretary of state Madeleine Albright pin collection in on exhibition at the Bellevue Arts Museum. Ambassador to the United Nations and she criticized Saddam Hussein, his poet in residence responded by calling her unparalleled serpent. Later, when preparing to meet with Iraqi officials, she decided to make a diplomatic statement by wearing a snake pin. Her message: Don tread on me. From that day forward, pins became part of her diplomatic signature. (Ellen M. Banner/The Seattle Times)

For all the weight she carried as the United States Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright is surprisingly small.

She walked into the Bellevue Arts Museum the other morning to preview "Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection," and was almost lost in her entourage.

Follow her upstairs, pandora jewelry outlet though, and you understood. Her signature pins   some of them costume jewelry, others pure gold and studded with gems   wielded plenty of power, pandora sale 2016 whether they were crabs or bugs, hearts pandora charms deals or birds. World leaders, translators and negotiators only needed to glance at Albright's left shoulder to know what kind of mood she was in.

"I wanted to make foreign policy less boring," Albright, 77, cracked as she led a group of reporters through the exhibit. Ambassador to pandora sale 2016 the United Nations. The Gulf War had just ended and she was monitoring sanctions against Iraq.

"And so every day, I said something perfectly dreadful about Saddam Hussein, which he deserved," Albright said, adding, "They invaded Kuwait."

When one of the papers in Baghdad printed a poem referring to Albright as "an unparalleled serpent," pandora jewelry outlet a light went off. Albright found a gold snake pin she had owned for years, and put it on.

"Whenever we talked about Iraq, I wore that pin," she said. Cameras zoomed in, reporters asked about it.

"I thought, well, this is fun," Albright said. "So I went out and I bought a bunch of costume jewelry to depict what I thought would happen on any given day. On good days I pandora charms cheap wore flowers and butterflies, and on bad days a lot of insects and carnivorous animals."

The exhibit of about 200 pins was organized by the Museum of Arts and Design, New York and pandora charms sale clearance is on view at the Bellevue Arts Museum through June 7.

"If you think about the message you want to send, they work really well," Albright explained.

She wore a crab pin to Middle East talks, she said, "Because everything was going sideways."

While she was secretary of state, she found out Russians were bugging a room not far from her office; they even found the man who was sitting outside, listening.

"The next time I was with the Russians I wore a very large bug and they knew exactly what the message was going to be on that," she said. "So bugs were nice."

"I think every mother has one of these," Albright said. "I've missed it a lot. I haven't been able to wear it. But it's an example of an inanimate object carrying a lot of emotion."

The second is what she called her "Katrina pin," given to her by a young man who approached her at a dinner at the World War II museum. He said his father had given it to his mother, who died in Hurricane Katrina. The family wanted her to have it.

"I said, 'I can't accept it,'" Albright recalled.

"You have to," he told her. "Our mother loved you."

When the pins aren't traveling the country on exhibit, they're stored in her home, organized by species.

The night before her visit to the Bellevue Arts Museum, Albright dined at the home of former Microsoft COO Jon Shirley, and was gifted with a large red pin depicting the Bellevue Arts Museum made by local artist Chris Abrass.   and has made her choice for the next president.

"I really admire Hillary Rodham Clinton," Albright said, adding that they first met when the former first lady and secretary of state was head of the Children's Defense Fund.

"We were a fun tag team when she was first lady and I was secretary and I think she was a great secretary of state and is one of my dear friends."

Albright could, until recently, leg press 400 lbs. She goes to the gym three times a week, does needlepoint, sings to opera in the car and yes, has seen "House of Cards," the Netflix series about Washington political intrigue.

"I'm not sure I like it," Albright said. "It's too dark. I think the acting is amazing. But people are cynical enough about Washington. It isn't quite as bad as it is portrayed."

She prefers "Madam Secretary," starring Ta Leoni, with whom she once had breakfast to talk about her career, "And I'm sitting there, thinking, 'We're actually having a serious conversation about being secretary of state.'"

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