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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The very promise of it (membership) has given the nations of central and Eastern Europe an incentive to solve their own problems,
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This is not Saddam Hussein versus the United States, ... This is Saddam Hussein versus the United Nations.
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We believe that the United Nations needs new leadership for the 21st century, somebody who's going to get up every morning and decide that reforming the U.N. so that it can function in the 21st century is his or her major goal,
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I loved representing the United States. And I actually think being the first is terrific because I kind of set the standard, ... ... I had the opportunity to chart the way.
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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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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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These people have to go back, otherwise there are no people in Kosovo,
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I mean at the moment, Kosovo is practically depopulated of Albanians, and that is not what we think is an appropriate end,
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I meet with a lot of people, ... Stay tuned.
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I hope very much the Serbs will see it in their interest also to sign on,
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I hope that today we may pledge here in Kosovo never again will people with guns come in the night, never again will houses and villages be burned, and never again will there be massacres and mass graves,
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I made it very clear that there were eight weeks (before the summit and) there had to be a speeding up of the work...to be in a position to have concrete results,