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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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Madeleine Albright
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 1
Diplomat
Former United States Secretary Of State
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Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.
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Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.
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I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
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A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.
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John Kerry knows more about more subjects than an awful lot of people. But I think it's a very hard job [Secretary of State].
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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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I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.
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Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.
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I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.
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I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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