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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They are next-door neighbors with a past of conflict and a present of bitter mistrust,
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Israelis and Palestinians have cooperated in the past to achieve historic agreements as well as practical cooperation on the ground, ... They must find a way again to end the current psychology of confrontation and begin to restore the psychology of peace-making. That is what we will be trying to achieve in these meetings.
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But as we have shown during the past two years, America will not be intimidated, nor will we retreat from the world,
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Looking back over the past year, I do not see how any other decision could have been made or any reason for its delay,
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Although a year has past ... our mourning for those who died, Americans and Africans, has not diminished, ... We miss them still and rage against their loss.
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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,