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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: 88
Born: 1937
Born: January 1
Diplomat
Former United States Secretary Of State
Politician
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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 think the hardest part [is] the priorities. There are an awful lot of things to do [being Secretary of State].
Madeleine Albright
For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.
Madeleine Albright
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.
Madeleine Albright
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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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
Madeleine Albright
What you have to be concerned about are the extremists. On the whole, we need to understand the more moderate Muslims before they become more radicalized.
Madeleine Albright
I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
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Armageddon is not a foreign policy.
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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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Women are more than 50% of almost every country in the world. Countries rob themselves of the resources of women if they keep them as property. It isn't that women can't find work. It's just that women don't get paid for their work and are not recognized properly. It's something that has to be on the international agenda all the time.
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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.
Madeleine Albright
I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.
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As strong as the United States is, we can't deal with terrorism alone.
Madeleine Albright
A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.
Madeleine Albright
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.
Madeleine Albright
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.
Madeleine Albright
History is written backwards but lived forwards.
Madeleine Albright
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.
Madeleine Albright
To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
Madeleine Albright
My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
Madeleine Albright
