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If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.
Madeleine Albright
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Madeleine Albright
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 1
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Former United States Secretary Of State
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Women are more than 50% of almost every country in the world. Countries rob themselves of the resources of women if they keep them as property. It isn't that women can't find work. It's just that women don't get paid for their work and are not recognized properly. It's something that has to be on the international agenda all the time.
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There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants my violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected.
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Only in America could a refugee girl from Central Europe become secretary of state.
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I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.
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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.
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People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.
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If there's nobody in your way, you're not going anywhere.
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I am by nature a worried optimist.
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We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.
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Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.
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Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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Well we're good friends so I'm a little prejudice, but I think [Hillary Clinton] is incredibly qualified, and better prepared to be president than almost anyone who's ever run frankly.
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For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.
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We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.
Madeleine Albright
No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.
Madeleine Albright
So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.
Madeleine Albright
