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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When the Burmese government tries to blame the victims for the crime, and say that (democracy activist) Aung San Suu Kyi and her party are responsible for their own repression, I can only reply that much the same was once said about Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel, ... The world is not fooled. And we must not be silent.
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will not make a decision on sending U.S. troops until we have an agreement in hand and can evaluate whether it meets the conditions President Clinton has outlined.
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Today the peace process is in danger -- not because of the people of the region and not because they do not desire peace, but because leaders have failed to take the actions required to realize the possibilities of peace,
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Time is no longer an ally of this process, it has become an adversary.
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Time and time again, Milosevic has taken half steps to avoid the consequences of his actions, ... NATO will be overhead and next door.
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We are obviously concerned about what is happening there and are urging all parties to exercise restraint,
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We know the day is drawing closer when the community of freedom will once more encompass the pearl of the Antilles, and the hemisphere of the American democracies will be complete,
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I think this is a very hard choice, but the price -- we think the price is worth it,
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I will believe it when I see it.
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It is a subject of discussion with them and was raised both when President Clinton and I were in Pakistan and in Greece recently, ... We are pressing them on it, but we are not considering sanctions.
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is doing what he was elected to do.
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We talked at some length about what her intentions were. And it was at that point that it became evident to me that she understood all the things that had gone wrong,
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When it comes to dealing with North Korea, we must be cautious. When I look at relations with North Korea, I have to ... with balanced euphoria,
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When I took this job I had those instincts surgically removed, ... We believe in bipartisan foreign policy, and it's important to understand that we must test this agreement to see if it works.