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 talk foreign policy in the plainest possible language with the American people, so that each and every one can understand the stake he or she has in our American foreign policy process.
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If the Serbs are responsible for the fact that the talks fail, then it will be Serb targets that are hit,
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I believe that while there are constructive discussions going on, that it is worth continuing the process. We are clearly coming to the end of this phase, and we cannot let it go on indefinitely. But as long as the talks are constructive, I think it's worth going the extra mile.
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No doubt the president will take the opportunity to try to talk to him about working together on some things this fall.
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We ought to be talking about issues that are beyond and around the nonproliferation issue,
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I think it's very important that we do everything we can to strengthen and unify the opposition. This is what we talked about, ... We obviously are going to stay in very close touch over the coming weeks.
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Let me stress that in our relations with China, engagement is not the same as endorsement, ... Our approach includes frank talks about differences.
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Let me make this perfectly clear: I do not tell Chairman Butler what to do, ... Chairman Butler has made it perfectly clear that he makes the operational decisions and that he takes orders and instructions from no one. The Security Council itself talks to him about policy, but not on operations.
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We talked at some length about what her intentions were. And it was at that point that it became evident to me that she understood all the things that had gone wrong,
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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.