Madeleine Albright Quotes

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Madeleine Albright

Profession : Statesman

Birth : May 15, 1937

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.

Madeleine Albright

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

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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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The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

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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 love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

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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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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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Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.

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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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What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.

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No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.

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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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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

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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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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

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And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the 'my way or the highway' approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

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

Madeleine Albright