American - Statesman | May 15, 1937 - 8
The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
Madeleine Albright
GoodI Have LearnedMoreAlwaysSeen
I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.
MeBecauseIdealistMakeMoralist
Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.
BusinessI AmMeToughLaughYou
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.
GovernmentNormalProfessorHands-On
I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.
I AmPoliticalPersonAm
I am such a political person.
FightWarAmericaDownCountryOver
I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.
MeAmericaNationIndispensable
For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.
AmericaCountryNeverSeenMeddling
I've never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.
GoodMindBelieveYouTablePerson
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.
LifeMy LifeThreadNATOBeen
NATO has been a thread throughout my life.
LifeCommunismMy LifeStudying
I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
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