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

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

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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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• 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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• The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

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• The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

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• The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

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• The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

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• The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

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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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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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