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Only in America could a refugee girl from Central Europe become secretary of state.
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
Marie Jana Korbelová
Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright
Madeleine Korbel Albright
Marie Jana Korbelova
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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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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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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History is written backwards but lived forwards.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
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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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It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.
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The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq.
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Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.
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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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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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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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Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.
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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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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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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
Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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I teach at Georgetown, and I see that the students have so many different interests. The main thing is to match your passion with your knowledge, because you can't just be passionate without knowing the facts, and facts are really boring without passion.
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