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I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.
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
Marie Jana Korbelová
Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright
Madeleine Korbel Albright
Marie Jana Korbelova
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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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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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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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China is in its own category - too big to ignore, too repressive to embrace, difficult to influence, and very, very proud.
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Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.
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I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.
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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.
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A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.
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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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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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You have to learn to interrupt because you aren't going to get called on.
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For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.
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I am such a political person.
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For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.
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I got married, I really waited a long time - three days after I graduated.
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The bottom line is, the more we have a cadre of women moving up the scale, and it doesn't seem threatening, and people realize that women actually work much harder than men, and realize that they need more women in these jobs, I think that goes away.
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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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For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.
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History is written backwards but lived forwards.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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