Madeleine Albright Quotes - Page 4

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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.

  Madeleine Albright

  Country, Religious, Issues

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• Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.

  Madeleine Albright

  Political, President, Rooms

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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.'

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, Weather, Ties

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• I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized.

  Madeleine Albright

  Believe, Civilization, Clash

  "Online Extra: Madeleine Albright on Democracy and Force". Q&A, www.bloomberg.com. December 23, 2002.

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• I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist who worries a lot.

  Madeleine Albright

  War, Reading, Thinking

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• Our life comes in segments, and we have to understand that we can have it all if we're not trying to do it all at once.

  Madeleine Albright

  Trying, Our Lives, Ifs

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• I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.

  Madeleine Albright

  Believe, Thinking, Trying

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• Armageddon is not a foreign policy.

  Madeleine Albright

  Armageddon, Foreign Policy, Policy

  Speech at Harvard Divinity School, April 11, 2007.

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• Women have to work exceptionally hard.

  Madeleine Albright

  Hard

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

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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.

  Madeleine Albright

  War, Gymnastics, Elephants

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• Today, I say that no nation in the world need be left out of the global system we are constructing.

  Madeleine Albright

  Needs, World, Today

  "Albright Sees an Ambitious World Mission for U.S". Harvard University commencement speech, www.nytimes.com. June 6, 1997.

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• The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.

  Madeleine Albright

  Common Purpose, Circumstances, Oneself

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• I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, Way, Being A Woman

  "Madeleine Albright: On being a woman and a diplomat". Interview with Pat Mitchell, en.tiny.ted.com. December 2010.

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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.

  Madeleine Albright

  Team, Thinking, Views

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

  Madeleine Albright

  Pins, Enjoy

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• Leaders are made by the situations they are involved in. I think that some rise to the occasion and some do not.

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, Leader, Made

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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.

  Madeleine Albright

  Father, Imagine, Raised

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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.

  Madeleine Albright

  Believe, Mean, Order

  "Madeleine Albright: Hillary's job not a party" by MJ Lee, www.politico.com. April 20, 2012.

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• In diplomacy, clear-cut wins and losses are rare.

  Madeleine Albright

  Cutting, Loss, Winning

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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.

  Madeleine Albright

  Jobs, Party, Fundraising

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

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• We have the most generous immigration policy, but what is a concern is when illegal immigrants come and undermine a variety of the systems that work in order to make our society function.

  Madeleine Albright

  Order, Immigration, Our Society

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• You can't just think that you will get a job for no good reason... And I think that the other part is you have to work your way up, you know I did a lot of Xeroxing and getting coffee...I always did what I was asked to do. I delivered. People knew that I would get things done and get them done well. And that is a big part of our resumes, are based on being responsible and being willing to do what needed to be done.

  Madeleine Albright

  Jobs, Coffee, Thinking

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

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• Women are more than 50% of almost every country in the world. Countries rob themselves of the resources of women if they keep them as property. It isn't that women can't find work. It's just that women don't get paid for their work and are not recognized properly. It's something that has to be on the international agenda all the time.

  Madeleine Albright

  Country, Agendas, World

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• But I think there are some who believe they are actually protecting women, you know, and that it is better for women to be taken care of. I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important. And frankly, I don’t understand — I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat — but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

  Madeleine Albright

  Taken, Believe, Mean

  "Madeleine Albright: ‘I Can’t Understand Why Any Woman Would Want To Vote For Mitt Romney’". Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2012.

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• It is an unfortunate fact that in many parts of the world women are considered property. An awful lot of injustice is obviously due to that; not just women's status in the home, but all kinds of laws that are even more discriminating.

  Madeleine Albright

  Home, Law, World

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