Quotes by Adele

“Our nation's memory is long and our reach is far.”

“Lesley Stahl: We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it? Madeleine Albright: I think this is a ...”

“My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.”

“What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?”

“Little effort was made to explain Saddam's culpability, his misuse of Iraqi resources, or the fact that we were not embargoing medicine or food. I was exasperated that our TV was showing what amoun...”

“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”

“Mahmoud Abbas is a puppet.”

“I never should have made it. It was stupid.”

“What really troubles me is that democracy is getting a bad name because it is identified with imposition and occupation. I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to cho...”

“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.”

“I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.”

“The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.”

“Armageddon is not a foreign policy.”

“When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.”

“There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants may v...”

“I'm a critic. I think the administration has really undermined America's power and reputation and that Iraq may go down in history as the greatest disaster in American foreign policy, which means t...”

“Get out, you disgusting Serbs!”

“In early 2000, I became the first senior U.S. official to meet with Vladimir Putin in his new capacity as acting president of Russia. We in the Clinton administration did not know much about him at...”

“I have been reminded in recent months of that nearly three-hour session with Mr. Putin as he has massed troops on the border with neighboring Ukraine. After calling Ukrainian statehood a fiction in...”

“In the 20-odd years since we met, Mr. Putin has charted his course by ditching democratic development for Stalin’s playbook. He has collected political and economic power for himself — co-opting or...”