Madeleine Albright Quotes
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Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.
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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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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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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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Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.
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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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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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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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The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.
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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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There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.
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I am such a political person.
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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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People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.
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I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
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My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.
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Armageddon is not a foreign policy.
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There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess.
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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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There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants may violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do then they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected.
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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.
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Hugh, I know I shouldn't even be asking you this, but what we really need in order to go in and take out Saddam is a precipitous event-something that would make us look good in the eyes of the world. Could you have one of our U-2s fly low enough-and slow enough-so as to guarantee that Saddam could shoot it down?
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There were always jokes about Hillary Clinton channeling Eleanor Roosevelt, but Eleanor Roosevelt was really instrumental at the UN, and would want to meet with various other delegates.