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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.
Madeleine Albright
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Madeleine Albright
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 1
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Former United States Secretary Of State
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Marie Jana Körbelová
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Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright
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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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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.
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There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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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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I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.
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My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
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What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.
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Only in America could a refugee girl from Central Europe become secretary of state.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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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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When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally I believe you earn them.
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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 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 enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.
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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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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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