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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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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The Russian-U.S. relationship is so important and so broad that it could not be damaged by the Kosovo situation,
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In our relationship with China, these are neither the best of times nor the worst of times,
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He's someone who has a very good relationship with the Kosovar Albanians, and he has taken a great personal interest in this subject,
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there clearly are concerns in our relationship and those can best be dealt with through direct dialogue.
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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,