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Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (born May 15, 1937) is an American politician and diplomat. She is the first woman to have become the United States Secretary of State. She served from 1997 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton.

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When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they serve.

Communication, Economies, Entrepreneurs, Opportunities, Opportunity, Technology

I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder. . . Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.

Cojones, Frankly, Joy, Murder, Pilots

The U. N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

Asking, Cold, Elephants, Grown, Gymnastics, War

Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.

Grim, Life, Life Is, Time

The Framework Agreement is one of the best things the [Clinton] Administration has done because it stopped a nuclear weapons program in North Korea.

Agreement, Korea, Nuclear, Program, Weapons

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

Central, Children, Democracy, Europe, Free, Parent

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.

Dragons, Laughing, Line, Set, Sound

I am by nature a worried optimist.

Optimism, Worried, Optimist, Nature

When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.

Adversaries, Diplomacy, Issues, Solve, Sometimes, Trying

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 in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

Believe, Fully, Good, Mean, Order, Understand

No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.

Dictators, Different, Mass Destruction, Saddam, Thinking, Wmd

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.

Auxiliary, Central, Issues, People, Thinking

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

Democracy, Government, Long, Run, Running, Stable

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

Figure, Get Up, Happen, Morning, Time, Trying

The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think men do that particularly.

Happened, Men, Think, Thinking, Weakness, Weaknesses

We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.

Jeopardizing, Mass Destruction, Security, Stability, Weapons, Wmd

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.

Different, Interdependent, Operating, Perspective, Thinking, Views

Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.

Men, Said, Speak, Stupid

The system he (President Hosni Mubarak) is recommending would make it virtually impossible for truly independent parties to participate. Sham democracy should be exposed for what it truly is.

Democracy, Exposed, Independent, Mubarak, Party, Recommending

There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.

Aspect, Aspects, Question, Religions, Side, Sides

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