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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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This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.
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I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.
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And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the “my way or the highway” approach that was evident in the previous eight years.
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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances that was and is our common purpose.
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Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in terms of understanding hard science for people who are studying climate change, or people who are interested in health policy or food security, or people who care about education.
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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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We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
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The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.
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Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.
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I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.
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A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.
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Obviously Iran is a very large problem. It's hard to decide what the number one issue [is], but that is a very threatening problem.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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I am such a political person.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.
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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.
Madeleine Albright
I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.
Madeleine Albright
