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I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Madeleine Albright

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Madeleine Albright
Age: 88
Born: 1937
Born: January 1
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Former United States Secretary Of State
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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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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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I consider it my patriotic duty as an ordinary citizen - not as Secretary of State - to ask questions. I think we have to ask ourselves the tough questions.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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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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I got married, I really waited a long time - three days after I graduated.
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I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.
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Armageddon is not a foreign policy.
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Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.
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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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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 know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.
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If there's nobody in your way, you're not going anywhere.
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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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