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I do not believe that things happen accidentally I believe you earn them.
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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Marie Jana Körbelová
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For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.
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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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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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There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.
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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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I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.
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There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants my violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected.
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I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.
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I got married, I really waited a long time - three days after I graduated.
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History is written backwards but lived forwards.
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I can't go out with a Republican.
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I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
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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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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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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'm a problem-solver.
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There's nobody who's had a resume like [Hillary Clinton] that's run for president.
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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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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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If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.
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