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I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.
Madeleine Albright
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Madeleine Albright
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 1
Diplomat
Former United States Secretary Of State
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Marie Jana Körbelová
Marie Jana Korbelová
Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright
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Marie Jana Korbelova
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I get up every morning and I'm grateful for everything that has happened. I go through my list about being grateful for my children and grandchildren, and for the really remarkable life that I have been able to have.
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Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.
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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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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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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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As strong as the United States is, we can't deal with terrorism alone.
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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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John Kerry knows more about more subjects than an awful lot of people. But I think it's a very hard job [Secretary of State].
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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 think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.
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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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So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.
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There's nobody who's had a resume like [Hillary Clinton] that's run for president.
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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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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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If there's nobody in your way, you're not going anywhere.
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What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.
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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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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.
Madeleine Albright
I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
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