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I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.

Madeleine Albright

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Madeleine Albright
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 1
Diplomat
Former United States Secretary Of State
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Marie Jana Körbelová
Marie Jana Korbelová
Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright
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The system he (President Hosni Mubarak) is recommending would make it virtually impossible for truly independent parties to participate. Sham democracy should be exposed for what it truly is.
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I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.
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But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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The bottom line is, the more we have a cadre of women moving up the scale, and it doesn't seem threatening, and people realize that women actually work much harder than men, and realize that they need more women in these jobs, I think that goes away.
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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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This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally I believe you earn them.
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I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.
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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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I do consider myself a feminist. I know the word has weird implications for people now, but I do think that its important to have women involved, whether its business or public service or...anything.
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I am such a political person.
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For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.
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Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.
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The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.
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I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.
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Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
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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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