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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.

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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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.
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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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I bought ... the pins with my three daughters in mind the ships are beautiful, graceful, and moving along at full sail, having long since left home port.
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the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.
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After the Cold War, to rally the American people to understand that we had to be a part of solutions. It's one thing to say that we have to run everything, it's another to say we don't want anything to do with it.
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I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.
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NATO has been a thread throughout my life.
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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 don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.
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What you have to be concerned about are the extremists. On the whole, we need to understand the more moderate Muslims before they become more radicalized.
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And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.
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