Madeleine Albright

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Diplomat · Born May 15, 1937 · United States Of America · Female

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From “Madeleine Albright: An Exclusive Interview”

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

Tagged: Fierce Women, Strong Women, voice, Silence

From “Finding Your Own Voice: Insightful Quotes from Uncommon Women”

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

Tagged: feminism, strength, Women, Courage

From “Madeleine Albright”

“The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.”

Tagged: Books, emotions, interesting, Feelings

From “Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team”

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

Tagged: feminism, Women, empowerment, Helping People

From “Madam Secretary”

“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.”

Tagged: perseverance, striving, Success, Faith, Life

From “Memo to the President Elect”

“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 they are trespassers, not criminals.…”

Tagged: difference, Morality, Crime, Criminals, Trespassers

From “Prague Winter”

“I wonder,’ wrote Eleanor Roosevelt, ‘whether we have decided to hide behind neutrality? It is safe, perhaps, but I am not always sure it is right to be safe. . . . Every time a nation which has known freedom loses it, other free nations lose something, too.”

Tagged: Wonder, Neutrailty, Hiding, Freedom, nation

“When trouble arise among faraway people, we remain tempted to hide behind the principle of national sovereignty, to "mind our own business" when it is convenient, and to think of democracy as a suit to be worn in fine weather but felt in the closet when clouds threaten.”

Tagged: trouble, Soverignty, Democracy

“The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.”

Tagged: voice, force, USA

From “The Mighty and the Almighty”

“History would be far different if we did not tend to hear God most clearly when we think He is telling us exactly what it is we want to hear”

Tagged: History, difference, God, Thoughts

From “Public statement in response to the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.”

“Our nation's memory is long and our reach is far.”

Tagged: nation, Memory

From “Madam Secretary ”

“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.”

Tagged: Regret, Failure, Service

From “Madame Secretary”

“What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?”

Tagged: Military, Service

From “ Interview with Deborah Solomon”

“What really troubles me is that democracy is getting a bad name because it is identified with imposition and occupation. I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.”

Tagged: Democracy, Freedom, Choice

From “Quoted in Time”

“I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.”

Tagged: Wome, empowerment, Equality

From “Speech at Harvard forum”

“When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.”

Tagged: National Issues, Counsel, His Beautiful Mind, Diplomacy

“If diplomacy is the art of persuading others to act as we would wish, effective foreign policy requires that we comprehend why others act as they do.”

Tagged: Diplomacy, Persuasion, Policy

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

Tagged: Humility, Identity, purpose, Being Yourself

“I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.”

Tagged: Accidents, Belief

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

Tagged: Choices, Change, Decisions, ability

Madeleine Albright

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