Madeline Albright
Madeline Albright
Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright is an 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 confirmed by a U.S. Senate vote of 99–0. She was sworn in on January 23, 1997...
ahead work
They know, as we do, that there is a lot of work ahead of us,
attempt government possible
possible attempt by Belgrade to oust his government.
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The struggle to reveal and deal with the full truth surrounding the handling of Holocaust-era assets is wrenching, but also cathartic, ... Only by knowing and being honest about the past, can we gain peace in the present and confidence in the future.
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NATO'S fundamental purpose -- safeguarding the ideals, interests and territory of its members -- is unchanging,
certainly future
Certainly there is no future for Serbia under Milosevic,
achieve agreement opportunity seize
seize this opportunity to achieve an interim settlement agreement in Kosovo.
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Saddam's goal ... is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.
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It will be a Chapter 7, and it will have NATO at its core, and it will have other countries associated with it,
cut
having cut away a lot of the underbrush.
basic nato objectives repression stop strong
a very strong endorsement... of the basic objectives established (by the 19-nation NATO alliance) ... to stop the repression in Kosovo.
national seven
breakthrough because we have been working at this for seven years, and it is very important for national security.
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The United States will continue to do its share, ... other members of the alliance need to do much, much more. This will increase the confidence of our Congress that both Europe and the United States will fairly and effectively share the burden of sustaining the peace process in Bosnia.
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I have a lot of different pins ... and it all kind of started as a joke, ... I do like jewelry, but when Saddam Hussein called me a snake, I happened to have a snake pin. And I was doing an interview, actually with CNN, and your cameras picked up that I had on a snake pin, and I was asked why and I said, 'because Saddam Hussein has just called me a snake.'
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I assure you if we decide to use force, Russia will not veto it.