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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

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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I think the hardest part [is] the priorities. There are an awful lot of things to do [being Secretary of State].
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The Framework Agreement is one of the best things the [Clinton] Administration has done because it stopped a nuclear weapons program in North Korea.
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I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.
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The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq.
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The cover-up, more than the initial wrongdoing, is what is most likely to bring you down.
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Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.
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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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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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Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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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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I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.
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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 have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.
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Unfortunately for the Iraqi people, instead of meeting these requirements, for six years, Saddam Hussein has lied, delayed, obstructed and tried to deceive
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally I believe you earn them.
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History is written backwards but lived forwards.
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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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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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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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