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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

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Madeleine Albright
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 1
Diplomat
Former United States Secretary Of State
Politician
Writer
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Marie Jana Körbelová
Marie Jana Korbelová
Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright
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When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.
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I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
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There's nobody who's had a resume like [Hillary Clinton] that's run for president.
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the “my way or the highway” approach that was evident in the previous eight years.
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I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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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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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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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 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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The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.
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For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.
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For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.
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It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.
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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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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.
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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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