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You Quotes by Madeleine Albright
- No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove…
- I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the…
- Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and…
- Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But…
- The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments…
- If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.
- Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
- I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary…
- One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting,…
- I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.
- And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they…
- Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this…
- The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but…
- You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your…
- But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a…
- As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
- I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.
- There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go…
- I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.
- If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S.…
- To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
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- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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