American politician, 1937-
Her parents, Josef Korbel, a Czechoslovakian diplomat, and Anna Spiegelova, named her Marie Jana; the name "Madeleine" came from "Madlenka," a childhood nickname.
Albright served as the countrys permanent representative to the United Nations for four years before being appointed by President Bill Clinton the 64th U.S. Secretary of State in 1997, the first woman to serve that position. She was also a university professor and adviser on international affairs starting during the Jimmy Carter presidency.
Was Bill Clinton s Secretary of State.
Her daughters, Alice and Anne, were born in June, 1961. She then gave birth to another daughter who died soon after and then had daughter Katherine.
Madeleines parents are Jews who converted to Catholicism in order to escape the Holocaust. Madeleine was only told about her Jewish Ethnicity as an adult. She later joined the Episcopal Church of the USA.
Daughter-in-law of Ivan Le Lorraine Albright.
Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama on 29 May 2012.
The religious scholars I have consulted are passionate about the need for political leaders to educate themselves in the varieties of faith and to see religion more as a potential means for reconciliation than as a source of conflict.
As you go along your 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.
Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.
No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about what they care about is the picture.
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. .
