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Madeleine Albright
Age: 88
Born: 1937
Born: January 1
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Former United States Secretary Of State
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In diplomacy, clear-cut wins and losses are rare.
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I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
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Well we're good friends so I'm a little prejudice, but I think [Hillary Clinton] is incredibly qualified, and better prepared to be president than almost anyone who's ever run frankly.
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Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.
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The stunning part was that one time Neil McElroy the Secretary of Defense who was the father of one of our classmates spoke and basically at commencement, he told us all that our job after graduation was to get married and have interesting sons...and we all found that hard to believe.
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NATO has been a thread throughout my life.
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I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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Today, I say that no nation in the world need be left out of the global system we are constructing.
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I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
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I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.
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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 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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The interesting part is, that being the United States Secretary of State, most places I went didn't have a problem with me being a woman, because I was representing the United States.
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Armageddon is not a foreign policy.
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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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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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Only in America could a refugee girl from Central Europe become secretary of state.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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I am such a political person.
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