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If there's nobody in your way, you're not going anywhere.
Madeleine Albright
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Madeleine Albright
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 1
Diplomat
Former United States Secretary Of State
Politician
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Marie Jana Körbelová
Marie Jana Korbelová
Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright
Madeleine Korbel Albright
Marie Jana Korbelova
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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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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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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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Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.
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I have very set and consistent principles, but I am flexible on tactics. I like to get the job done.
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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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Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in terms of understanding hard science for people who are studying climate change, or people who are interested in health policy or food security, or people who care about education.
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People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.
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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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Women have to work exceptionally hard.
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I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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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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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.
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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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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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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 think the hardest part [is] the priorities. There are an awful lot of things to do [being Secretary of State].
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