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Madeleine Albright

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Madeleine Albright
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 1
Diplomat
Former United States Secretary Of State
Politician
Writer
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Marie Jana Körbelová
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Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright
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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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I bought ... the pins with my three daughters in mind the ships are beautiful, graceful, and moving along at full sail, having long since left home port.
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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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I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that.
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I am by nature a worried optimist.
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NATO has been a thread throughout my life.
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If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.
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Today, I say that no nation in the world need be left out of the global system we are constructing.
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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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The cover-up, more than the initial wrongdoing, is what is most likely to bring you down.
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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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If there's nobody in your way, you're not going anywhere.
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I got married, I really waited a long time - three days after I graduated.
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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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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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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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I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.
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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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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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