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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

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
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Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright
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Women have to work exceptionally hard.
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Armageddon is not a foreign policy.
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What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.
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For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.
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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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I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.
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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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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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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 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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