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- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
- American Interests
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.
- Destruction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.
- Serious
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. 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.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't go out with a Republican.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren't very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.
- Elephant
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.
- Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I've revived the costume-jewelry industry.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.
- Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
- Ever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important that we invest in America - literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can't let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020