Madeleine Albright Quotes

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  There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.

  Madeleine Albright

  Strong Women, Business, Independent Women

  "Q&A with Arianna Huffington, co-founder of Huffington Post, on Donald Trump, sleep and the media". Interview with Laura Newberry, www.masslive.com. April 29, 2016.

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  It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

  Madeleine Albright

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Madeleine Albright: An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.

  Madeleine Albright

  Jobs, Army, Levels

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  The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.

  Madeleine Albright

  Issues, Feminist, Reason

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

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• If there's nobody in your way, you're not going anywhere.

  Madeleine Albright

  Way, Ifs

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• Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth.

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  Country, Determination, Passion

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• As you go along your own road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance... But no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still and persevere.

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  Inspirational, Success, Persistence

  Madeleine Albright's Commencement Address at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, www.mtholyoke.edu. May 25, 1997.

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• Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing.

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  Inspirational, Graduation, Real

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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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  Running, School, Mean

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

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• What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

  Madeleine Albright

  Freedom, People, Capacity

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• Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.

  Madeleine Albright

  Responsibility, People, Succeed

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• A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.

  Madeleine Albright

  Diplomats, Reactions, Extremes

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• No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

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  Hands, Goal, Sitting

  "Madeleine Albright: An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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  I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.

  Madeleine Albright

  War, Thinking, Economic Sanctions

  "60 Minutes", May 12, 1996.

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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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  Success, Guarantees, Way

  "Madam Secretary". Book by Madeleine Albright, 2003.

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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.

  Madeleine Albright

  Men, Rooms, World

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

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• History is written backwards but lived forwards.

  Madeleine Albright

  Backwards, Written

  Madeleine Albright (2001). “Madam Secretary”, Miramax Books

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• You have to learn to interrupt because you aren't going to get called on.

  Madeleine Albright

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

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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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  Believe, Successful, Order

  "Madeleine Albright: An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Responsibility

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• The world would be entirely different if it were run by women. I think it is true that we are more seeking consensus and don't have such big egos and have a variety of different ways of trying to get along. But anybody who says that the world would be better has forgotten high school. It depends on who the women are.

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  Running, School, Thinking

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• To put it mildly, the world is a mess.

  Madeleine Albright

  World, Mess

  "In Obama's Foreign Policy, Some See Patience; Some See Passivity" by Scott Horsley, www.npr.org. July 31, 2014.

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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.

  Madeleine Albright

  Views, Leader, Might

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• If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle with the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expected or hoped to see than on what was really there.

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  Black And White, Expectations, Intelligence

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• Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.

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  Choices, Good Things, Collectives

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