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One Of The Things I Write About A Bit In My Madam Secretary Memoir Is On Rwanda, Where I Was An Instructed Ambassador At The U.n., And My Instructions Were To Not Vote For Increased Forces There, And I Didn't Like My Instructions. So I Got Up And Called Washington And Said, "change My Instructions," And They Didn't.

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Madeleine Albright

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One Of The Things I Write About A Bit In My Madam Secretary Memoir Is On Rwanda, Where I Was An Instructed Ambassador At The U.n., And My Instructions Were To Not Vote For Increased Forces There, And I Didn't Like My Instructions. So I Got Up And Called Washington And Said, "change My Instructions," And They Didn't.

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I Got Married Three Days After Graduation, And The First Thing I Did What I Was Expected To Do Which Was To Work On A Small Newspaper. So We Were In Chicago Where My Husband Worked For The Chicago Sun-times And We Were Having Dinner With His Editor And He Said 'so What Are You 'gonna Do Honey?' And I Said 'i'm Going To Work On A Newspaper', And He Said 'i Don't Think So", Because Newspaper Guild Regulations Said That I Couldn't Work On The Same Newspaper As My Husband.

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 Away.

Well, The Thing That I Learned As A Diplomat Is That Human Relations Ultimately Make A Huge Difference.

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 Woman, You Might Not Get Into The Conflicts In The First Place. But If You Watch The Women Who Have Made It To The Top, They Haven't Exactly Been Non-aggressive - Including Me.

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I Think That We Had A Different View Of What The 21st Century Could Be Like, With Much More Of A Sense, From Our Perspective, Of Trying To Have An Interdependent World: Looking At Solving Regional Conflicts, Having Strength In Alliances, Operating Within Some Kind Of A Sense That We Were Part Of The International Community And Not Outside Of It.

The Administration Does Not Agree With Those Who Suggest We Should Deploy Hundreds Of Thousands Of American Troops To Engage Militarily In A Ground War In Iraq.

What Distinguishes Americans From Many People In The World Is Our Kind Of Endemic Optimism.

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Mass Destruction

As You Go Along Your Own Road In Life, You Will, If You Aim High Enough, Also Meet Resistance... But No Matter How Tough The Opposition May Seem, Have Courage Still And Persevere.

When Somebody Is Flying Airplanes Into Buildings And Killing Innocent People In The Name Of God, It Makes You Question Why Do They Have That Interpretation And Somebody Else Has Another Interpretation, And How Many People Of Muslim Faith Would Agree With That, And What Are The Different Aspects Of Different People's Religions That Is So Divisive, Rather Than Being Unifying?

I Never Dreamed About One Day Becoming Secretary Of State. It's Not That I Was Modest; It's Just That I Had Never Seen A Secretary Of State In A Skirt.

It's Important That We Invest In America - Literally. The Terrorists Wanted To Destroy Our Economy, And We Can't Let Our System Fall Apart. We Also Have To Invest In One Another.

Our Predecessors Understood That The Ties That Bind America Are Far Stronger Than Disagreements Over Any Particular Policy And Far More Durable And Profound Than Any Party Affiliation.

I Have Always Thought Of Myself As A Czechoslovak Catholic.

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We Don't Understand Enough About The Islam Religion And Muslim World.

I Spent My Life Studying Communism And Soviet Systems.

One Of My Trips Was To Meet With The Gulf Cooperation Council With All The Saudi Foreign Ministers, And When We Started The Meeting I Said 'perhaps You've Noticed That I'm Not Dressed The Same As My Predecessors", But No-one Had A Problem And I Was Never Treated With Anything Other Than Respect...so I Did Not Have Problems With That, Interestingly Enough.

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I Enjoy Wearing Pins, And Nobody Tells Me To Do It.

[john Kerry] Actually Stole My Line Because When I Became Secretary Of State, I Said, 'i Hope My Heels Will Fill Warren Christopher's Shoes.' So He Reversed That.

One Of The Things I Write About A Bit In My Madam Secretary Memoir Is On Rwanda, Where I Was An Instructed Ambassador At The U.n., And My Instructions Were To Not Vote For Increased Forces There, And I Didn't Like My Instructions. So I Got Up And Called Washington And Said, "change My Instructions," And They Didn't.

There Are An Awful Lot Of Things Going On That Need Understanding And Explanation, But - To Put It Mildly - The World Is A Mess.

Even Though There Were Three Newspapers In Chicago At The Time, He Said 'you Wouldn't Want To Compete With Your Husband," And So Instead Of Doing What I Might Do Now In That Situation, I Basically Saluted And Found Other Things To Do.

If There's Nobody In Your Way, You're Not Going Anywhere.

In Terms Intellectually, [what] Shaped My Life Was The Whole Munich Thing [the Munich Agreement] That I Knew About All My Life, In Terms Of How Large Powers Make Decisions That Affect Small Countries, And The Unintended Consequences Of That. The Other Part Is I Knew About The Holocaust. L Just Didn't Know That It Applied To My Family. But That Did Affect The Way I Thought About What I Was Seeing As Ethnic Cleansing In The Balkans; There's No Question About That.

I Wasn't A Normal Professor. I Had Worked In Government. I Hadn't Written Nine Zillion Books. I Was A Hands-on Professor.

And So I Think That The Idea Of America Working With Other Countries To Solve Problems Is Good For Us, And It Is Part Of Digging Us Out Of The “my Way Or The Highway” Approach That Was Evident In The Previous Eight Years.

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 And Tough That.' Then There Is This Business About 'gooey.' The Bottom Line Is I Am A Pragmatic Idealist.

I Do Not Believe That Things Happen Accidentally; I Believe You Earn Them.

It Is An Unfortunate Fact That In Many Parts Of The World Women Are Considered Property. An Awful Lot Of Injustice Is Obviously Due To That; Not Just Women's Status In The Home, But All Kinds Of Laws That Are Even More Discriminating.

I'm A Problem-solver.

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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.

In 1953, The United States Played A Significant Role In Orchestrating The Overthrow Of Iran's Popular Prime Minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower Administration Believed Its Actions Were Justified For Strategic Reasons, But The Coup Was Clearly A Setback For Iran's Political Development And It Is Easy To See Now Why Many Iranians Continue To Resent This Intervention By America In Their Internal Affairs.

I Think That A President Needs To Have A Variety Of Views Presented. But Also, There Has To Be A Team Effort, Because Otherwise, I Think It Creates A Dissonance And Difficulty.

I Bought ... The Pins With My Three Daughters In Mind; The Ships Are Beautiful, Graceful, And Moving Along At Full Sail, Having Long Since Left Home Port.

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