Secretary Albright inscribes: "As your guest in this sacred place, moved by love, I pray for an end to intolerance, the nurturing of knowledge and a coming together in peace. Madeleine Albright. September 10, 1997."

SECRETARY ALBRIGHT: I am grateful for the opportunity to visit Yad Vashem, and the Children's Memorial. Having done so, I am filled with emotion. The history remembered here is at odds with all we would like to believe about ourselves and about our world. It is a history of unbearable sadness, unrelieved suffering, and unbelievable cruelty. That is why this memorial and this museum are so troubling, and why it matters so much that they continue to trouble us. We must never allow ourselves to be at peace with the Holocaust or to believe we have somehow mastered its lessons.
We must never allow ourselves to forget. In this museum, in every face, in every picture, there is a warning: may God grant us the wisdom and the will to recognize evil whenever we see it, to oppose intolerance whenever we confront it, to fight hate whenever we come into contact with it, and to remember in the name of all who are memorialized here, that no-one's blood is less precious than our own.

I pay tribute to the people of Israel for remembering at Yad Vashem. I know I will never forget my visit.

Thank you very much.