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ALBRIGHT: I think that the situation is quite different because that was when Saddam Hussein invaded another country and there was a situation whereby others there was a large coalition.
ALBRIGHT: I have spent quite a lot of time on this issue in the last months -- 1997 was not a great year for the peace talks, but we are determined to continue.
ALBRIGHT: Let me say that what we are doing is so that all of you can sleep at night (Applause.) -- because we are facing we are in a very different kind of a world where we are facing the danger of the spread of the weapons of mass destruction.
www.fas.org /news/iraq/1998/02/20/98022006_tpo.html   (9956 words)

  
 Albright, Madeleine - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A lifelong Democrat, she was chief legislative assistant to Senator Edmund Muskie (1976-78) and served on the staff of the National Security Council and the White House (1978-81).
Albright was an adviser to Bill Clinton (1992), and the newly elected president appointed her U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in 1993.
Upholding the administration's "assertive multilateralism," Albright was a strong supporter of an expanded NATO and an advocate of an active U.S. foreign policy, including the use of U.S. forces to protect American interests and prevent genocide in foreign countries.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-albrightm1.html   (413 words)

  
 The Washington Monthly - Madame Secretary
Indeed, it is somehow telling that Albright, who arrived in America at age 11, quickly lost her foreign accent and later, as a policy-maker, became a Wilsonian moralist whose hero is WASP wise man Dean Acheson.
A loyal wife and doting mother, Albright floundered after her patrician husband, Joe Albright, stunned her in 1982 with the news that he was in love with another woman.
Later, at her Senate confirmation hearing as secretary of state, Albright poignantly talked of her trip to the killing grounds, where she saw hundreds of skeletons--including "one that was only two feet long, about the size of my little grandson." (She was confirmed 99-0).
www.washingtonmonthly.com /books/1999/9906.hirsch.albright.html   (1587 words)

  
 ABC Radio National - Background Briefing: 7 March  2004  - Madeline Albright
Madeline Albright as the US Secretary of State in the Clinton Administration, was the highest ranking woman in the history of American government.
Madeline Albright: Well I think there is a great deal to be said for that because in fact when we are in a war, the Pentagon takes over.
Madeline Albright: Well I think that there’s been a question all along as to what the value of a missile shield is, especially since there isn’t one that works, and what it does in effect to try to undermine the various missile regimes and arms control agreements that we had.
www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/bbing/stories/s1063104.htm   (5821 words)

  
 Biography of Madeleine Albright   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
As secretary of state, Albright serves as the president’s principal adviser on foreign policy, conducts negotiations related to U.S. foreign affairs, and is a member of the National Security Council.
Albright has been the president of the Center for National Policy, a nonprofit research organization that promotes the study and discussion of domestic and international issues, and a research professor of international affairs and the director of the Women in Foreign Service Program at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
Albright was a staff member on the National Security Council and at the White House, where she was responsible for foreign policy legislation, from 1978 to 1981.
www.whatsnew.neu.edu /albright000531.html   (330 words)

  
 friendly printed version:U.S. Arms Policy in Africa: Madeline Albright Speaks to the Security Council's Africa ...
Albright began her speech by recognizing that progress has been made in several African countries that had been ravaged by conflict for several years.
However, Albright emphasized that there was still much work to be done and that several countries, such as Angola and Congo, are on a dangerous path to renewed violence and war.
Albright’s comments were especially noteworthy because it was the first time such recommendations had been made in a comprehensive package in an international forum.
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 KOMO : KOMO 1000 News Interviews Madeline Albright
Madeline Albright: Well, I think it's very confusing these days because there are a number of different discussions about what the motivations were for going.
Madeline Albright: Well, I do think North Korea is actually more dangerous than Iraq was because we knew that they had a couple of potential nuclear weapons.
Madeline Albright: Well, I can understand the problems in Israel, they just had a terrible suicide bombing again with a young woman as the suicide bomber and the horror that is causes to people in Israel not being able to protect themselves.
www.komotv.com /news/printstory.asp?id=27609   (862 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Madam Secretary: A Memoir: Books: Madeleine Albright   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Albright proposes to "combine the personal with policy" in these memoirs, a sensible narrative strategy, considering her emblematic struggles as a working mother breaking through the glass ceiling of the foreign policy establishment to become U.N. ambassador and secretary of state.
Albright is not out to settle scores (her criticisms of colleagues are mild at worst) and seems, on balance, pleased with the foreign-policy record of the Clinton Administration.
Albright discussed the personal traumas that marked her life: the shameful sudden departure of her husband of 23 years for another woman; the death of her beloved father; the stillbirth of a child.
www.amazon.com /Madam-Secretary-Memoir-Madeleine-Albright/dp/0786868430   (3425 words)

  
 Madeline Albright's Trip To Vietnam And Cambodia
Albright represents an administration whose lust for selling U.S. policy to the highest international or multi-national bidders with scant concern for American national security has benefited the "butchers of Beijing" and the corrupt "war criminal" regime in Hanoi.
Albright's remarks and the administration's actions in response to the growing political violence in Cambodia.
Albright will arrive in Hong Kong with her political star already tarnished because of a recent testimony before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and her best friend in Congress, Senator Jesse Helms.
www.usvetdsp.com /story60.htm   (776 words)

  
 Albright's joke joins growing list of Bush theories - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Madeleine Albright, the secretary of state in the Clinton administration, in a conversation with Morton Kondracke, executive editor of Roll Call and a Fox News Channel political analyst, suggested that Osama bin Laden has been captured by U.S. forces and will soon be produced to the public.
Albright's remark followed by a day the charge by Rep. Jim McDermott of Washington that the Bush administration could have captured Saddam "long ago if they wanted," but held off until Mr.
Albright's comment "absolutely ridiculous" and said it exposes a kind of "paranoia" that has engulfed the Democratic Party.
www.washtimes.com /national/20031217-115113-2173r.htm   (905 words)

  
 CNN - Albright: 'All options open' on Iraq - Feb. 1, 1998
Albright underlined what she said was a continued danger posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
Albright was in the Mideast over the weekend on a mission to drum up support for possible military action against Iraq, should Baghdad continue to restrict access for U.N. weapons inspectors.
Albright assured Saudi Arabia and Kuwait of Washington's commitment to standing by them, as it had during the Gulf War.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9802/01/iraq   (548 words)

  
 National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall
Madeleine Korbel Albright, sworn in as the 64th United States Secretary of State in 1997 after unanimous confirmation by the U.S. Senate, became the first female Secretary of State and the highest ranking woman in the United States government.
Albright has dedicated her life to international study.
Albright was Sen. Edward Muskie's Chief Legislative Assistant; a Woodrow Wilson fellow; president of the Center for National Policy, a nonprofit research organization; and Research Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Women in Foreign Service Program at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
www.greatwomen.org /women.php?action=viewone&id=7   (391 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: On the Hill -- December 17, 1998
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT: Well, what I must say has bothered me is that we have had such a great tradition of bipartisan support for foreign policy and also when we've been - you know, when any president has been abroad, then for the most part there have not been negative comments.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT: Well, I think I would like to say that we are very sensitive to Ramadan, which begins over the weekend, but I don't want to go into more detail than that.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT: Well, what we're - the purpose of the use of force here is to degrade Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, his ability to develop and deploy weapons of mass destruction, and his ability to continue to threaten his neighbors.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec98/albright_12-17.html   (1901 words)

  
 The American media and its reporting on Iraq   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
On tape, Albright's rationale was edited to follow the statement of a lawyer specializing in human rights.
ALBRIGHT: It is a moral question, but the moral question is even a larger one.
ALBRIGHT: I think, Leslie … it is hard for me to say this because I am a humane person, but my first responsibility is making sure that United States forces do not have to go and re-fight the Gulf War.
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 Madeline Albright - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Madeline Albright - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Albright, Madeleine Korbel, born in 1937, American diplomat, secretary of state (1997-2001) under President Bill Clinton.
The group includes 20 picturesque wooded islands, the largest being Madeline...
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 The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs by Madeleine Albright   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state and bestselling author of Madam Secretary, offers a thoughtful and often surprising look at the role of religion in shaping America’s approach to the world.
In The Mighty and the Almighty, Madeleine Albright examines the profound impact of religion on America’s view of itself, the effect on U.S. policy of the rise of the Christian right, the Bush administration’s successes and failures in responding to 9/11, the challenges posed by the war in Iraq, and the importance of understanding Islam.
Albright served as U.S. secretary of state from 1997 to 2001.
www.harpercollins.com /book/index.aspx?isbn=9780060892579   (508 words)

  
 Madeleine Albright - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Albright gained recognition as a foreign policy adviser to vice-presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 and to presidential candidate Michael Dukakis in 1988.
In 2000, Secretary Albright became one of the highest level Western diplomats to ever meet Kim Jong-il, the communist leader of North Korea, during an official state visit to that country.
In 2005, Albright declined to run for re-election to the Board in the aftermath of the Grasso compensation scandal, in which the Chairman of the NYSE Board of Directors, Dick Grasso, had been granted $187.5-million dollars in compensation, with little governance by the board on which Albright sat.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Madeleine_Albright   (2066 words)

  
 Dr. Madeline Albright, Secretary of State, Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on the CTBT, October ...
ALBRIGHT: Well, I don't want to engage in hyperbole, but in spades I agree with what they have said, because I think that we are very concerned about the possibility here that we have two countries side by side that have very serious differences and have now the potential of nuclear weapons.
ALBRIGHT: Well, first of all, I believe that they are all counting on us to lead the nonproliferation fight and to make sure that they -- that our deterrent is strong as a result of the fact that others cannot test; therefore, they are counting on us to keep the lead in nuclear nonproliferation.
ALBRIGHT: No. And I think that some of the things we did was -- to have protection ourselves -- is in terms of making sure that countries that we did not like or had problems with would not be able to have open access to our sites.
www.fas.org /nuke/control/ctbt/text/100799albright1.htm   (12279 words)

  
 UN Sanctions Against Iraq Only Serve US Ambition
This despite their failure and human cost, as determined by UNICEF to be the death of some 5,000 children under five years of age each month, and that excludes teenagers, adults and the elderly also dying unnecessarily under the UN embargo.
Ms Albright failed to mention that the UN Security Council was in fact discussing a peaceful withdrawal as the US bombed Baghdad in 1991.
I am also sure that Ms Albright is right, Saddam Hussein would like to forget the use of chemical weapons, just as the US would like to forget the use of the atomic bomb on the Japanese and forget about the use of chemicals in Vietnam and depleted uranium in the Gulf War.
www.commondreams.org /views/081100-104.htm   (1510 words)

  
 StarCenter Astrology: The Horoscope of Mrs. Madeline Albright
Madeline Albright was born as Madlenka Korbel on May 15, 1937.
This girl was meant to be the real Madeline, the person who loved people, the one who would love her man, love her children, love her neighbors, and live well.
But in Madeline Albright's life, the old woman has taken over completely, bossing the Bill Clintons in her life as the neighborhood Moms boss their husbands and their sons.
www.starcenter.com /albrt-p.htm   (2875 words)

  
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Albright argues that, to be effective, U.S. policymakers must understand the power and place of religion in motivating others and in coloring how American actions are perceived.
Madeleine Albright: One of the really basic issues here is how we get away from seeing the world through a prism that no longer reflects reality.
Albright: Yes, it makes it much more difficult for America to be out there as a model, something which is also not helped by the Bush administration’s disrespect for the norms of international law.
www.digitalnpq.org /articles/global/78/05-08-2006/madeleine_albright   (2076 words)

  
 DenverPost.com - Albright encourages more immersion in world   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told her classmates at Kent Denver School on Saturday that the United States is an indispensable nation but one with little understanding of the rest of the world.
Albright, who served as President Clinton's U.N. ambassador and secretary of state, returned this weekend to the school for her 50th class reunion.
We should work with Mexico to bolster its economy," said Albright, who met her husband, a reporter, when she worked briefly for The Denver Post in the late 1950s.
www.denverpost.com /news/ci_2797191   (450 words)

  
 The Albright Group LLC - Who We Are
Serving as a member of the President’s Cabinet and National Security Council for eight years, Dr. Albright was the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1993 to 1997.
Albright is the first Michael and Virginia Mortara Endowed Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and the first Distinguished Scholar of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Business School.
Albright is the Chairman of The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and also serves on the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange.
www.thealbrightgroupllc.com /whoWeAre.htm   (872 words)

  
 Madeline Albright on acceptable costs.
More than five years have passed since Madeleine Albright, then secretary of state, appeared on the CBS program "60 Minutes" and explained her lack of concern about the deaths resulting from U.S.-led sanctions against Iraq.
In a broadcast that aired on May 12, 1996, the CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl asked Albright: "We have heard that a half a million children have died.
Of course such present-day policies did not stop Albright's successor from immediately claiming the high moral ground on Sept. 11.
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 CNN.com - Albright: Bush needs 'more specifics in his plan' - May 24, 2004
Madeleine Albright, who was secretary of state during Bill Clinton's presidency, watched the speech and shared her thoughts with CNN's Paula Zahn.
ALBRIGHT: Well, he laid out five points, but they raise as many questions as he provided ideas about.
First of all, there's still no guarantee that the Iraqi people will accept whatever interim government -- the sovereignty that we are going to turn over something to somebody -- but we're not clear yet what is what.
www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/24/albright/index.html   (650 words)

  
 Remarks at Town Hall Meeting
SECRETARY ALBRIGHT: Let me say that what we are doing is so that all of you can sleep at night -- (Applause.) -- because we are facing -- we are in a very different kind of a world where we are facing the danger of the spread of the weapons of mass destruction.
This was not a public forum, a lesson in participatory democracy, or a chance for the people to make their voice heard, it was a manufactured event designed to increase the ratings of a corporate media giant and the ratings of a shaky presidency.
Albright gave a generic response, saying that the US was aware of these situations and dealing with them.
www.ccmep.org /hotnews/1998remarks_at_town_hall_meeting.htm   (12020 words)

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