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Madeleine K. Albright

Geburtstag: 15. Mai 1937

Madeleine Korbel Albright, geborene Marie Jana Korbelová , ist eine US-amerikanische Politikerin . Sie war von 1997 bis 2001 Außenministerin der USA und die erste Frau in diesem Amt.

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„Disgusting Serbs, get out!“

— Madeleine K. Albright

„There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.“

— Madeleine K. Albright
Keynote speech at "Celebrating Inspiration" luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, quoted in Mechelle Voepel, ESPN (July 13, 2006)

„What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.“

— Madeleine K. Albright

„I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life“

— Madeleine K. Albright, Madam Secretary: A Memoir
On her upbringing, Madam Secretary (2003), p. 512

„I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don't.“

— Madeleine K. Albright

„There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants may violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do then they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected.“

— Madeleine K. Albright
On illegal migrants to the United States from Mexico and Central America, in Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership (2008), p. 225

„I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.“

— Madeleine K. Albright
[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1215791,00.html Quoted] in Time (July 18, 2006)

„I never should have made it. It was stupid.“

— Madeleine K. Albright
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today5_albright_20051019.ram Comment] on Stahl interview, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme (October 19, 2005)

„What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?“

— Madeleine K. Albright
To Colin Powell, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in the 1990s, on Bosnia, recounted in Madam Secretary (2003), p. 182

„My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.“

— Madeleine K. Albright
Comment on the Rwandan Genocide in Madam Secretary (2003), p. 147.

„Little effort was made to explain Saddam's culpability, his misuse of Iraqi resources, or the fact that we were not embargoing medicine or food. I was exasperated that our TV was showing what amounted to Iraqi propaganda... I must have been crazy; I should have answered the question by reframing it and pointing out the inherent flaws in the premise behind it. Saddam Hussein could have prevented any child from suffering simply by meeting his obligations. Instead, I said the following: 'I think this is a very hard choice, but the price, we think, the price is worth it.' As soon as I had spoken, I wished for the power to freeze time and take back those words. My reply had been a terrible mistake, hasty, clumsy, and wrong. Nothing matters more than the lives of innocent people. I had fallen into a trap and said something that I simply did not mean. That is no one's fault but my own.“

— Madeleine K. Albright
Comment on Stahl interview in Madam Secretary (2003), pp. 274-275

„Hugh, I know I shouldn't even be asking you this, but what we really need in order to go in and take out Saddam is a precipitous event—something that would make us look good in the eyes of the world. Could you have one of our U-2s fly low enough—and slow enough—so as to guarantee that Saddam could shoot it down?“

— Madeleine K. Albright
See "[http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/10/the-evil-of-madeleine-albright/ The Evil of Madeleine Albright]" by Gary Leupp

„I think this is a very hard choice, but the price — we think the price is worth it.“

— Madeleine K. Albright
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbIX1CP9qr4 Stated] on CBS's 60 Minutes (May 12, 1996) in reply to Lesley Stahl's question "We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?" Albright was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations at the time.