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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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„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)
„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
„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 " The Evil of Madeleine Albright http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/10/the-evil-of-madeleine-albright/" by Gary Leupp
„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.
„What really troubles me is that democracy is getting a bad name because it is identified with imposition and occupation. I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.“
— Madeleine K. Albright
When asked what she considered the greatest mistake of the George W. Bush administration, interview with Deborah Solomon http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE5DB173FF930A15757C0A9609C8B63, New York Times (April 23, 2006)
„I think this is a very hard choice, but the price — we think the price is worth it.“
— Madeleine K. Albright
Stated http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbIX1CP9qr4 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.
„Armageddon is not a foreign policy.“
— Madeleine K. Albright
Speech at Harvard forum (April 11, 2007)
„Mahmoud Abbas is a puppet.“
— Madeleine K. Albright
(BBC HARDTALK 17-MAY-2004) uncut version.
„The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.“
— Madeleine K. Albright
Speech at a Harvard Institute of Politics/Harvard Divinity School forum (April 11, 2007), quoted in the Harvard Crimson http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/4/12/albright-calls-for-diplomacy-in-iraq/
„It is the threat of the use of force [against Iraq] and our line-up there that is going to put force behind the diplomacy. But if we have to use force, it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future, and we see the danger here to all of us.“
— Madeleine K. Albright
Stated http://www.fas.org/news/iraq/1998/02/19/98021907_tpo.html on NBC's Today Show (February 19, 1998)
„Our nation's memory is long and our reach is far.“
— Madeleine K. Albright
Public statement in response to the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. In: Schweid, Barry (August 10, 1998) " Albright Offers $2M Bombings Reward http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1998/Albright-Offers-$2M-Bombings-Reward/id-199d52a55e4601c022b587363eefe099".
„Get out, you disgusting Serbs!“
— Madeleine K. Albright
At a book signing in Prague https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FaPuBUY558
