Madeline Albright, “the price is worth it.”

In a 1996 60 Minutes interview, Madeline Albright, the Secretary of State from 1997 to January 2001, and Ambassador to the UN from 1993 to 1997, during the Clinton administration, answered, “the price is worth it,” in response to the claim that 500,000 children have died due to the United States sanctions on Iraq, followed by the question, “Is the price worth it?”