Madeleine Korbel Albright, właśc. Marie Jana Korbelová – amerykańska dyplomatka, polityk; 64. sekretarz stanu. Urodziła się w żydowskiej rodzinie zamieszkałej w Czechosłowacji.
Została nominowana przez prezydenta Billa Clintona 5 grudnia 1996 na stanowisko sekretarza stanu. Oficjalnie objęła urząd 23 stycznia 1997 roku. Albright była pierwszą kobietą na tym stanowisku .
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„Kim Jong Il, jest kamykiem, który uruchomi we wschodniej Azji lawinę.”
Źródło: Atomowe szaleństwo. Rozmowa z Madeleine Albright byłą sekretarz stanu USA, „Wprost”, 26 stycznia 2003, s. 89, cyt. za: Waldemar Jan Dziak, Kim Jong Il, Wydawnictwo Trio, Instytut Studiów Politycznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Warszawa 2004, s. 133.
Źródło: „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 6 czerwca 2005
„Gdybym się nie rozwiodła, nigdy nie zostałabym amerykańskim sekretarzem stanu.”
Źródło: NBC, 20 września 2004
Źródło: „Polityka”, 24 lutego 2007
“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
On her upbringing, Madam Secretary (2003), p. 512
2000s
Źródło: Madam Secretary: A Memoir
“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
Comment on Stahl interview in Madam Secretary (2003), pp. 274-275
2000s
See " The Evil of Madeleine Albright http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/10/the-evil-of-madeleine-albright/" by Gary Leupp
Disputed
Stated http://www.fas.org/news/iraq/1998/02/19/98021907_tpo.html on NBC's Today Show (February 19, 1998)
1990s
When asked what the George W. Bush administration's legacy in foreign affairs would be, interview http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2008/01/02/qa-madeleine-albright with Thomas Omestad, U.S. News & World Report (January 2, 2008)
2000s
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
2000s
“Get out, you disgusting Serbs!”
At a book signing in Prague https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FaPuBUY558
2000s
Comment on the Rwandan Genocide in Madam Secretary (2003), p. 147.
2000s
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
To Colin Powell, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in the 1990s, on Bosnia, recounted in Madam Secretary (2003), p. 182
2000s
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
(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
