She served in the position for four years and ended her service on January 20, After the communist coup in , the family immigrated to Denver, Colorado. Albright Americanized her name to Madeleine, became a U.
Do you think that had to do with being a woman? First of all, I'm not sure that people fully understand — male or female, when you go to a foreign country, you do begin with a bunch of small talk. If you are doing your job, you have prepared to say any number of things.
You have talking points, which you have memorized. So I had a trick, which was, after too much of the small talk, I would say, "I have come a long way so I must be frank.
It was usually something about human rights or some aspect of governance that wasn't working. I was fairly direct, I have to say, because I think that sometimes it's important in terms of the tone. I don't think frankly that I was rougher, tougher or anything than any man. I just think people were surprised to hear that language from a woman. Well, I think the Chinese issue is a very complicated one. In every campaign there are some negative things about China. Then you kind of have to figure out how to walk it back, how to have relationships with China.
But I don't think we've ever been in a situation that is quite as really brittle. I am worried about Russia because, while the Chinese I think are operating from a position of more and more strength, the Russians are basically Putin playing a weak hand very well. What he's doing is undermining democracy. Not just in terms of some of the hacking and stuff that they're doing with the United States, but also in terms of trying to separate us from our allies in Europe.
Then I'm obviously also worried about North Korea and Iran. But I'm also worried about the kind of global issues that are out there: climate change that really is a very serious issue and the pandemic that we have been so inadequately working on. There are certain problems that know no borders. We are not very apt at the moment in dealing with those kinds of issues. You've written a book about fascism "Fascism: A Warning," Are you concerned we're heading down that path?
Is that too strong of a word? I wrote it before the virus obviously. There were divisions already in our society. Every country has divisions. But a demagogic leader is somebody that can exacerbate those divisions. The first person to be a fascist was dictator Benito Mussolini. Italy had been on the side of the Allies during World War I, but people felt they were not respected enough for the role they played.
They had economic problems. Mussolini was an outsider, a good speaker, somebody that could motivate people. He kind of got into the middle of this situation and began to exacerbate it by aligning himself with one group of people at the expense of another.
The best quote in that book was from Mussolini, in which he said, "If you pluck a chicken one feather at a time, nobody notices. Various places that were making me nervous in terms of the steps that they were taking.
By the way, fascism is not an ideology. It is a process for gaining power and it begins with a demagogic leader who is able to exacerbate the differences that are kind of normal in any society, who thinks that he's above the law, who thinks the press is the enemy of the people and is somebody who is willing to do pretty much anything to be in power. That book was a couple of years ago. Would you give a stronger warning now?
Among her achievements were ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention and progress toward stability in Eastern and Central Europe. Albright has dedicated her life to international study. After receiving her B. Before her appointment as Secretary of State, she had a diverse career. Albright was Sen.
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