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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Democracy is the key to our strategy throughout southeastern Europe,
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do everything possible to keep the economic reform rolling.
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Each side needs to avoid taking steps ... that embarrass the other and make negotiations more difficult,
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The best way forward is to allow the parties time to reflect on the choices before them.
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The Berlin Wall crumbled, Politburos resigned and governments vanished overnight. Half a million Czechs and Slovaks gathered ... in Prague and we sensed that a long, absent angel had returned home to Central Europe,
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It's essential that we stay there and finish the job, ... The American military that I met with when I was there, they understood why they were there and understood the value of peacekeeping.
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It's ... essential that girls not be exploited and abused and exposed to AIDS, ... It's very important to fight back.
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It's very important for there to be a change in atmosphere and an end to the crackdown, ... There has to be a release of people.
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The two parties are the ones that have to make the hard decisions, but the United States has to be there, ... They need a catalyst, they need to have somebody there as an honest broker. It's in our national interest that we be involved.
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They are next-door neighbors with a past of conflict and a present of bitter mistrust,
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They were casualties of a new kind of confrontation that looms as the new century begins,
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The authorities in Belgrade used every trick in the book to prevent a fair campaign, rig the election and distort the results, ... In so doing, they have fooled no one. Milosevic has been repudiated and claims by his regime to the contrary are laughable.
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It is the substance we are interested in at this stage, not the process,
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It will be a Chapter 7, and it will have NATO at its core, and it will have other countries associated with it,