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I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

Madeleine Albright

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Madeleine Albright
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 1
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally I believe you earn them.
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The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.
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In A Man With a Pipe, my brother observed that although my father had been seen as intellectual and my mother more a creature of temperament, she had often been the more levelheaded of the two. In sum, we miss them as we love them, equally and always.
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I think the jobs [at the top] are unbelievably difficult, and there is nothing easier than second-guessing people.
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Obviously Iran is a very large problem. It's hard to decide what the number one issue [is], but that is a very threatening problem.
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Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
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John Kerry knows more about more subjects than an awful lot of people. But I think it's a very hard job [Secretary of State].
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We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.
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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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The cover-up, more than the initial wrongdoing, is what is most likely to bring you down.
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I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.
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I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.
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For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.
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I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.
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I got married, I really waited a long time - three days after I graduated.
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I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.
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Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.
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I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.
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