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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.

Madeleine Albright

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Madeleine Albright
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 1
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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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It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.
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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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Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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History is written backwards but lived forwards.
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I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.
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I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.
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We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
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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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The cover-up, more than the initial wrongdoing, is what is most likely to bring you down.
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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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the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.
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Armageddon is not a foreign policy.
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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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Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.
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In A Man With a Pipe, my brother observed that although my father had been seen as intellectual and my mother more a creature of temperament, she had often been the more levelheaded of the two. In sum, we miss them as we love them, equally and always.
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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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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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