About Siberia and irreplaceable America: 7 provocative quotes from Madeleine Albright

“Read my brooches,” Madeleine Albright told reporters with a smile in 1994.

Photographers vigorously slammed their cameras, and the nickname “unprecedented snake” was given to the politician that day, as Iraqi media dubbed her. After that, Madeleine addressed the press with a gold snake brooch, laughing publicly in the face of her haters. And she had a lot of them – the first woman – the American Secretary of State, who went down in history as one of the most acerbic politicians and “a very worried optimist”. In general, the person is legendary. And that is why he is not liked everywhere.

One of Albright’s main props was a broken glass brooch. She saw him as a symbol of her personal history – a woman who shattered the glass ceiling of politics and became a key figure in the White House. “Only in America can a refugee girl from Central Europe become a secretary of state,” Madeleine said. The daughter of Bohemian Jews and a refugee from Czechoslovakia, she went from Maria Yana Korbelova to Madeleine Korbel Albright, Bill Clinton’s right-hand man and United States permanent representative to the UN. And the voice of American politics, which has sometimes published very controversial manifestos.

Madeleine often allowed herself to say what she thought: either with pins or with words. And if the decorations could be interpreted in different ways, and most often poetically, then the phrase “Disgusting Serbs, get out” is difficult to perceive ambiguously. Afterwards, Albright reacted strongly to Czech activists who came to attend the presentation of the politician’s book. Madeleine was found guilty of inciting ethnic hatred – and not for the first time. We’ve collected some of his provocative quotes, some of which have led to huge scandals.

Madeleine’s most famous and, most interestingly, unproven quote. This expression was often used by Russian politicians, but the original source cannot be found. However, the precedent for a feud was colossal.

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