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Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
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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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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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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But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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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 cover-up, more than the initial wrongdoing, is what is most likely to bring you down.
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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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Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.
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NATO has been a thread throughout my life.
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My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.
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A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.
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I have very set and consistent principles, but I am flexible on tactics. I like to get the job done.
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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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It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.
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People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.
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You have to learn to interrupt because you aren't going to get called on.
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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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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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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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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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