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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I have a lot of different pins ... and it all kind of started as a joke, ... I do like jewelry, but when Saddam Hussein called me a snake, I happened to have a snake pin. And I was doing an interview, actually with CNN, and your cameras picked up that I had on a snake pin, and I was asked why and I said, 'because Saddam Hussein has just called me a snake.'
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I have just heard a report that he was going to withdraw half his forces from Kosovo, ... If there ever was a definition of a half-measure, that's it.
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We cannot restore life nor rewrite history, ... But we can make the ledger slightly less out of balance by devoting our time, energy and resources to the search for answers, the return of property and the payment of just claims.
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There are, however, new threats in the world that I think both countries need to consider.
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This reflects the importance of the upcoming vote on China trade,
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There are indications that it will not happen on schedule but we hope very much that it would be as close to on schedule as possible, ... I think that it's important for the Israelis to move forward on the deployment.
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We have made very clear that his fatwa (edict) against Americans is unacceptable -- and do not believe that anyone should give him safe haven,
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We have made it clear that were there any attacks on our forces or on neighboring countries that our response would be swift and sure,
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We all understand how fateful the decisions are,
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There is nothing inevitable about the tensions between our two countries or on the Korean peninsula or in the region,
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To America's friends and allies abroad, I say that the future depends on our keeping our commitments to each other, ... We live in an era without power blocs in which old assumptions must be re-examined, institutions modernized and relationships transformed.
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there clearly are concerns in our relationship and those can best be dealt with through direct dialogue.
We think there has to be some kind of international presence,