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There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.

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Madeleine Albright
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 1
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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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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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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.
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There were always jokes about Hillary Clinton channeling Eleanor Roosevelt, but Eleanor Roosevelt was really instrumental at the UN, and would want to meet with various other delegates.
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Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
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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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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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It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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As strong as the United States is, we can't deal with terrorism alone.
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In diplomacy, clear-cut wins and losses are rare.
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Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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You have to learn to interrupt because you aren't going to get called on.
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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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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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I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.
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The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.
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Well we're good friends so I'm a little prejudice, but I think [Hillary Clinton] is incredibly qualified, and better prepared to be president than almost anyone who's ever run frankly.
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