Madeleine Albright Quotes - Page 7

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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.

  Madeleine Albright

  Iraq, Numbers, Vietnam

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

  Madeleine Albright

  Differences, America, Made

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• The stunning part was that one time Neil McElroy the Secretary of Defense who was the father of one of our classmates spoke and basically at commencement, he told us all that our job after graduation was to get married and have interesting sons...and we all found that hard to believe.

  Madeleine Albright

  Jobs, Father, Believe

  Interview with Maeve Allsup, www.amwordmag.com. October 20, 2015.

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• 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.

  Madeleine Albright

  Doctors, Government, Together

  Interview with Maeve Allsup, www.amwordmag.com. October 20, 2015.

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• I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

  Madeleine Albright

  College, Fire, Discovery

  Interview with Maeve Allsup, www.amwordmag.com. October 20, 2015.

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

  Madeleine Albright

  Fairy, Airy, Idealist

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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.

  Madeleine Albright

  Views, People, Bills

  Interview with Maeve Allsup, www.amwordmag.com. October 20, 2015.

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• 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.

  Madeleine Albright

  Mother, Men, Pigs

  Interview with Maeve Allsup, www.amwordmag.com. October 20, 2015.

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• One of my trips was to meet with the Gulf Cooperation Council with all the Saudi foreign ministers, and when we started the meeting I said 'Perhaps you've noticed that I'm not dressed the same as my predecessors", but no-one had a problem and I was never treated with anything other than respect...So I did not have problems with that, interestingly enough.

  Madeleine Albright

  Cooperation, Problem, Enough

  Interview with Maeve Allsup, www.amwordmag.com. October 20, 2015.

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• People didn't think that a woman could be the Secretary of State, when my name was out there...but then the Arab Ambassadors at the UN said 'We have no problem dealing with Ambassador Albright, and we would have no problem dealing with Secretary Albright.'

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, Names, People

  Interview with Maeve Allsup, www.amwordmag.com. October 20, 2015.

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• And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

  Madeleine Albright

  Uprising, Long, Revolution

  "Interview with Former Secretary of State Madeline Albright". "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 6, 2011.

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• I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

  Madeleine Albright

  Country, War, Fighting

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• I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, Views, Perspective

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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.

  Madeleine Albright

  Differences, Issues, Rights

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• 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.

  Madeleine Albright

  Husband, Might, Chicago

  Interview with Maeve Allsup, www.amwordmag.com. October 20, 2015.

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• I think the hardest part [is] the priorities. There are an awful lot of things to do [being Secretary of State].

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, Priorities, Awful

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• We don't understand enough about the Islam religion and Muslim world.

  Madeleine Albright

  Islam, World, Enough

  "Online Extra: Madeleine Albright on Democracy and Force". Transcript of the former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, www.bloomberg.com. December 23, 2002.

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

  Madeleine Albright

  Girl, War, World

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• One of the things I write about a bit in my Madam Secretary memoir is on Rwanda, where I was an instructed ambassador at the U.N., and my instructions were to not vote for increased forces there, and I didn't like my instructions. So I got up and called Washington and said, "Change my instructions," and they didn't.

  Madeleine Albright

  Writing, Ambassadors, Vote

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

  Madeleine Albright

  States, Secretary, Evident

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• I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

  Madeleine Albright

  States, Secretary

  "I loved what I did". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2003.

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• The interesting part is, that being the United States Secretary of State, most places I went didn't have a problem with me being a woman, because I was representing the United States.

  Madeleine Albright

  Interesting, United States, Problem

  Interview with Maeve Allsup, www.amwordmag.com. October 20, 2015.

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• Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.

  Madeleine Albright

  Hate, Frustration, Policy

  "Oprah Talks to Madeleine Albright". www.oprah.com. December 2001.

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• My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

  Madeleine Albright

  Children, Europe, Parent

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• Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

  Madeleine Albright

  Dragons, Laughing, Stories

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