“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.”

—  Madeleine K. Albright

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

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Former U.S. Secretary of State 1937–2022

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