Madeleine Albright citations

Madeleine Korbel Albright [ˈmædəlɪn ˈɔlbɹaɪt], née Marie Jana Korbelová, le 15 mai 1937 à Prague , est une diplomate et femme politique américaine. Membre du Parti démocrate, elle est ambassadrice américaine aux Nations unies de 1993 à 1997 puis secrétaire d'État des États-Unis entre 1997 et 2001 dans l'administration du président Bill Clinton. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. mai 1937 – 23. mars 2022
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Madeleine Albright: Citations en anglais

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

Keynote speech at "Celebrating Inspiration" luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, quoted in Mechelle Voepel, ESPN (July 13, 2006)
2000s

“Our nation's memory is long and our reach is far.”

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".
1990s

“Get out, you disgusting Serbs!”

At a book signing in Prague https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FaPuBUY558
2000s

“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.”

Quoted http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1215791,00.html in Time (July 18, 2006)
2000s

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

Comment http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today5_albright_20051019.ram on Stahl interview, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme (October 19, 2005)
2000s

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

To Colin Powell, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in the 1990s, on Bosnia, recounted in Madam Secretary (2003), p. 182
2000s

“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.”

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)
2000s

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

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.
1990s

“Armageddon is not a foreign policy.”

Speech at Harvard forum (April 11, 2007)
2000s

“Mahmoud Abbas is a puppet.”

(BBC HARDTALK 17-MAY-2004) uncut version.
2000s

“The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.”

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/
2000s

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