Madeline Albright

Madeline Albright
Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright is an American politician and diplomat. She is the first woman to have become the United States Secretary of State. She was nominated by U.S. President Bill Clinton on December 5, 1996, and was unanimously confirmed by a U.S. Senate vote of 99–0. She was sworn in on January 23, 1997...
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Words here are no substitute for action in the region, ... encourages extremism and diverts attention from the task at hand.
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We have a strategic opportunity to put the peace process back on track and we cannot afford to lose it,
fight
We have never had a fight with the Serbian people.
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What the Serb people really want to do is to be able to hold up their heads again and be a part of the new Europe. And this (Milosevic's arrest) is a step that needs to be taken to accomplish that.
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There is no question that Yugoslavia has turned a corner and is moving in a positive direction toward Europe and democracy.
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Until the parties have accepted all provisions of the agreement, preparations for NATO military action will continue,
permission troops
We are allies. We have responsibilities to each other. That's why our troops have been here with Italy's permission for so many years,
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I think the important part is to focus on what has to be done, which is to get the international community with the Bosnians to work on economic reconstruction.
We are going to try to defuse this,
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to work actively to end the violence and maintain calm.
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The path out of the wilderness is uphill, but it is clearly marked. It is time to move up that road.
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We are a country that understands the people of other countries, and understands that we have a common agenda across the board with many different countries -- so (it's) a very people-to-people style,
negotiate
We are not going to negotiate with him,
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We would hope very much that there would not be any unilateral action that will complicate matters here.