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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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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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If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.
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The Framework Agreement is one of the best things the [Clinton] Administration has done because it stopped a nuclear weapons program in North Korea.
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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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Only in America could a refugee girl from Central Europe become secretary of state.
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You have to learn to interrupt because you aren't going to get called on.
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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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The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.
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I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.
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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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Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.
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A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.
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History is written backwards but lived forwards.
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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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The stunning part was that one time Neil McElroy the Secretary of Defense who was the father of one of our classmates spoke and basically at commencement, he told us all that our job after graduation was to get married and have interesting sons...and we all found that hard to believe.
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But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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The world would be entirely different if it were run by women. I think it is true that we are more seeking consensus and don't have such big egos and have a variety of different ways of trying to get along. But anybody who says that the world would be better has forgotten high school. It depends on who the women are.
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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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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 wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.
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