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Madeleine Albright

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    Madeleine Albright

    After the Cold War, to rally the American people to understand that we had to be a part of solutions. It's one thing to say that we have to run everything, it's another to say we don't want anything to do with it.

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    Madeleine Albright

    Armageddon is not a foreign policy.

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    Madeleine Albright

    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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    Madeleine Albright

    As far as barriers once I joined the government I was very lucky because I had all of my credentials together, I was Doctor Albright... So when somebody wanted the one woman I made sure that they knew I was dependable and qualified.

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    Madeleine Albright

    As you go along your own road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance... But no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still and persevere.

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    Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.

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    Bill Clinton valued my opinion and always made sure that my views were heard, and people knew that he wanted me to talk.

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    Madeleine Albright

    But I think there are some who believe they are actually protecting women, you know, and that it is better for women to be taken care of. I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important. And frankly, I don’t understand — I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat — but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

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    Madeleine Albright

    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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    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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    Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

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    Madeleine Albright

    Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth.

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    Madeleine Albright

    Even though there were three newspapers in Chicago at the time, he said 'you wouldn't want to compete with your husband," and so instead of doing what I might do now in that situation, I basically saluted and found other things to do.

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    Madeleine Albright

    Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.

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    Madeleine Albright

    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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    Madeleine Albright

    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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    Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.

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    Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.

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    Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.

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    History is written backwards but lived forwards.

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    I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

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    I am by nature a worried optimist.

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    Madeleine Albright

    I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist who worries a lot.

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    Madeleine Albright

    I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

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    I am the only high-ranking U.S. official to ever meet with Kim Jong-il, and we are the same height and both wear high heels.

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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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    I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that.

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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 did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

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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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    Madeleine Albright

    I do consider myself a feminist. I know the word has weird implications for people now, but I do think that its important to have women involved, whether its business or public service or...anything.

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    I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized.

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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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    I do think that she [Hillary Clinton] will prove that she's the best, whether she's in the White House or somewhere else. I think it will very much be a historic moment, when we are able to say that we actually have done something like put a woman in the White House. Its very interesting to think about considering its taken us long as it has.

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    Madeleine Albright

    I felt that America's duty was not to try to do everything itself, but to foster a sense of commitment that would bring out the best in every country.

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    Madeleine Albright

    If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle with the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expected or hoped to see than on what was really there.

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    Madeleine Albright

    If we have to use force, it is because we are America.

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    If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

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    Madeleine Albright

    If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.

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    Madeleine Albright

    I got married three days after graduation, and the first thing I did what I was expected to do which was to work on a small newspaper. So we were in Chicago where my husband worked for the Chicago Sun-Times and we were having dinner with his editor and he said 'So what are you 'gonna do honey?' and I said 'I'm going to work on a newspaper', and he said 'I don't think so", because Newspaper Guild regulations said that I couldn't work on the same newspaper as my husband.

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    Madeleine Albright

    I had more problems with the men in our own government, and not because they were male chauvinistic pigs but because they had known me for so long. I might have been a carpool mother and a friend of their wife, and so they'd been to my house for dinner and things like and they thought 'how did she get to be secretary of state when I should be secretary of state?' So that was more of a problem.

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    Madeleine Albright

    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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    Madeleine Albright

    I have certain issues. I support women candidates, but I cannot support a woman that I don't believe in. I would prefer to vote for a man who believes in choice than a woman who is pro-life. We have to be able to make distinctions and not look as though we are not feminist enough if we don't support every woman. We need to have that kind of a choice.

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    Madeleine Albright

    I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

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    I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

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    Madeleine Albright

    I have very set and consistent principles, but I am flexible on tactics. I like to get the job done.

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    Madeleine Albright

    I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

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    Madeleine Albright

    I'm a problem-solver.

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    Madeleine Albright

    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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    Madeleine Albright

    In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed its actions were justified for strategic reasons, but the coup was clearly a setback for Iran's political development and it is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs.