Madeleine Albright Quotes

• What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

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• There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.

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• I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

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• Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

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• What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.

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• Women can’t do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

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• Women have to be active listeners and interrupters – but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

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• You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, ‘I really like your tie.’

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• I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

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• I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

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• While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

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• We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

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• Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.

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• To understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French.

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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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• We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

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• To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

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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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• There’s Madeleine, and then there’s ‘Madeleine Albright’. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become ‘Madeleine Albright’ it doesn’t go away.

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• The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

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Madeleine Albright (100)

Birth:	15th May, 1937
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Diplomat, Politician, Statesman

About

Madeleine Albright is a Czech-born American politician and diplomat. She is the first woman to have become the United States Secretary of State. She was nominated by U.S. President Bill Clinton on December 5, 1996, and was unanimously confirmed by a U.S. Senate vote of 99–0. She was sworn in on January 23, 1997.

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