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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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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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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 consider it my patriotic duty as an ordinary citizen - not as Secretary of State - to ask questions. I think we have to ask ourselves the tough questions.
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NATO has been a thread throughout my life.
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So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.
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The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.
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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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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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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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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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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 got married, I really waited a long time - three days after I graduated.
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For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.
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What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.
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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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History is written backwards but lived forwards.
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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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The world would be entirely different if it were run by women. I think it is true that we are more seeking consensus and don't have such big egos and have a variety of different ways of trying to get along. But anybody who says that the world would be better has forgotten high school. It depends on who the women are.
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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 have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.
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