QUOTES by Madeleine Albright
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I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.
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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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I've never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.
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I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.
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The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.
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I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.
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I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.
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It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.
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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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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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I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.
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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.
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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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Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
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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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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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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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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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One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.
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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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Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're 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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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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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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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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Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember - there's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.
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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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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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