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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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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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 don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.
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Leaders are made by the situations they are involved in. I think that some rise to the occasion and some do not.
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There were always jokes about Hillary Clinton channeling Eleanor Roosevelt, but Eleanor Roosevelt was really instrumental at the UN, and would want to meet with various other delegates.
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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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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 enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.
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A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.
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I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.
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Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.
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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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I think the jobs [at the top] are unbelievably difficult, and there is nothing easier than second-guessing people.
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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 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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Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.
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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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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.
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