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I am by nature a worried optimist.

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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Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright
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We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.
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As strong as the United States is, we can't deal with terrorism alone.
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The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.
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I bought ... the pins with my three daughters in mind the ships are beautiful, graceful, and moving along at full sail, having long since left home port.
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The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq.
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I think the hardest part [is] the priorities. There are an awful lot of things to do [being Secretary of State].
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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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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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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 can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that.
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What you have to be concerned about are the extremists. On the whole, we need to understand the more moderate Muslims before they become more radicalized.
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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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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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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.
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Women have to work exceptionally hard.
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I think the jobs [at the top] are unbelievably difficult, and there is nothing easier than second-guessing people.
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I got married, I really waited a long time - three days after I graduated.
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