Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (b.1937) is a Czechoslovak-American politician and diplomat.
Born in Prague, the Czech Republic, Albright’s family immigrated to the U.S. in 1948 during the Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia. In adulthood, she discovered that she isn’t Catholic, as her parents had led her to believe, but Jewish, and her grandparents died in the Holocaust.
Albright served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations 1993–97 and then as the U.S. Secretary of State 1997–2001, both under President Bill Clinton. After retirement, she published the memoir Madam Secretary (2003,) in which she chronicled her relocation to America, Ivy League education, marriage to a newspaper heir and divorce, and academic and diplomatic careers.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French.
—Madeleine Albright
Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
—Madeleine Albright
Topics: Jobs
As you go along your own road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance … . But no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still–and persevere.
—Madeleine Albright
I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
—Madeleine Albright
There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women.
—Madeleine Albright
Topics: Women
Anybody who thinks the world would be a better place if it were run by women doesn’t remember high school.
—Madeleine Albright
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