Madeleine Albright Quotes

• I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

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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 enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.

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• I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

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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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• 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 can’t imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

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• I can’t go out with a Republican.

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• I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

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• I am such a political person.

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• 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 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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• Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.

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• 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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• For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

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• For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

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

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• But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

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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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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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