Madeleine Albright
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"Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright" is a Czechoslovakian-born American politician and diplomat. She is the first woman to have become the United States Secretary of State. She was nominated by U.S. President Bill Clinton on December 5, 1996, and was unanimously advice and consent/confirmed by a United States Senate/U.S. Senate vote of 99–0. She was sworn in on January 23, 1997.

Albright currently serves as a professor of International Relations at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy/PhD from Columbia University and numerous honorary degrees. In May 2012, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama. Secretary Albright also serves as a director on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Albright is fluent in English language/English, French language/French, Russian language/Russian, and Czech language/Czech; she speaks and reads Polish language/Polish and Serbo-Croatian as well.

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I don't want to sound Pollyannaish, but I hope that out of a tragedy like this something good will come. I hope we understand we're one family.

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

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.

Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.

I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

This is not personal, this is business.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.