madeleine albright and sandy and i were just talking about being worried to preserve the development budget that we have. that is an irony of democratic politics. if you took a poll in u.s. the american people, and it has not changed in 30 years, how much of our budget we should spend on development assistance, they would say between 3% and 5%, no more. how much do you think it will spin? 10%, 15%, too much. what is the fact? we spend 1% or less. no matter how many times we say it, it does not register. so even though every member of the united states congress knows that they can safely vote for the assistant budget, they know that they will never be defeated for voting against one. for all of you who are

tonight, it is my great privilege to introduce our first honoree, secretary madeleine albright. throughout her career as secretary of state, ambassador to the u.n., and as an educator, she has shown an unshakable belief in america. in the power of democracy. she has worked her entire life to demonstrate and promote america's strengths and humanitarian spirit. secretary albright's work has been a personal inspiration for me. and her commitment to social justice, peace, and the rights of the poor and the marginalized has impacted countless lives on every corner of the globe. as secretary of state, she went toe the toe with dictator -- toe-to-toe with dictators, and each time the man did the same thing, peace and stability for all people, education for girls and women, and democracy as a path for a better and safer world. secretary albright has been a powerful force in advancing our civilian power, never missing an opportunity to stress the importance of the international budget, which we're all here to make sure that we hold steady to our national interest. she knows the value of

tonight, madeleine albright, former homeland security secretary tom ridge, and microsoft chairman bill gates on the importance of foreign assistance. then a look at the 100th anniversary of the birthday of ronald reagan. first, you'll hear tributes from the senate floor, and later, live coverage of former vice president dick cheney at a banquet in santa barbara, california. former secretary of state madeleine albright and former homeland security secretary tom ridge were honored at an event hosted by the grube called the u.s. global leadership coalition. after their remarks, we'll hear from microsoft chairman and philanthropist bill gates. all three speakers stressed the importance of foreign aid, economic prosperity, and national security. abc news and n.p.r. analyst cokey roberts moderates. this is an hour and 10 minutes. >> thank you, sarah and george. that was lovely. in listening to you, only the living secretaries of state write letters on things unimaginative. i'm from louisiana. how grateful you are to have thomas jefferson's name on a letter. you can go with it. some of you wo

honoree, secretary madeleine albright. in her career, she has shown an unshakable belief in america. , in the power of democracy. she has worked her entire life to demonstrate and promote america's strength and humanitarian spirit. secretary albright's work has been a personal inspiration for me. her commitment to social justice, peace, and the rights of the poor and the marginalized as impacted countless lives on every corner of the globe. as secretary of state, she went toe to toe with dictators and each time demanded the same thing -- peace, stability for all people, education for girls and women, and democracy as a path for a better and safer world. secretary albright has been a powerful force in advancing our civilian powers, never missing an opportunity to stress the importance of the international fairs budget. we want to make sure we hold budget to vote -- we hold steady to our national interest -- knows about investing in the developing world. she is a champion for people living in poor communities and she is an o

we will hear from madeleine albright and retired general wesley clark. he was the chief military negotiator. former national security adviser sandy berger introduces president clinton. this was held at noon york university and hosted by the clinton foundation. it is an hour and 10 minutes. >> skeletal prisoners behind barbed wire. horse in europe we thought had been banished forever. yet at home, there was not much appetite. abroad, our european allies stayed fast and resisted tougher measures that might put the humanitarian mission at risk. by mid-1995, bosnian serbs shelled innocent families in sarajevo. it took u.n. peacekeepers hostage. president clinton concluded that american leadership was the only hope for peace. that august we began an all-out diplomatic initiative. backed by the use of nato force, it shifted the balance of power. the early weeks were scarred by tragedy. first the death of three american diplomats and then a mortar attack on sarajevo. nato's relentless air strikes together with bosnian and croatian gains on the ground lead the p

former secretary of state madeleine albright and retired general wesley clark, former national security adviser stanley berger introduces president clinton. this event was held at new york university and hosted by the clinton foundation. it is one hour and 10 minutes. >> skeletal prisoners behind barbed wire. horse in europe we thought had been banished forever. yet at home, there was not much appetite. abroad, our european allies state fast and resisted tougher measures that might but the humanitarian mission at risk. by mid-1995, bosnian serbs shelled innocent families in sarajevo. it took u.n. peacekeepers hostage. president clinton concluded that american leadership was the only hope for peace. that august wheat began an all- out diplomatic initiative. backed by the use of nato force, it shifted the balance of power. the early weeks were scarred by tragedy. first the death of three american diplomats and then a mortar attack on sarajevo. nato's relentless air strikes together with bosnian and croatian gains on the ground lead the party to a cease-fire and to dayton where for 21 days

by the way, madeleine albright, the head of n.d.i., called for observers. russ feingold and i had a resolution in support of human rights in egypt. so a lot of this should have been seen. this administration and the liberal left in america viewed bush's "democracy" efforts as a way or an excuse to go to war. when president obama refused to support the people in the streets of tehran, when a young woman bled to death and that was a scene seen by the world and this administration did nothing, that sent a very bad signal to all of these dictatorships. >> schieffer: what should we have done? you're not saying we should have gone to war. >> no, but we should have spoken up for them, just as ronald reagan spoke up for the people behind the iron curtain, just as throughout our history we have had a fundamental belief and commitment that all of us are endowed with certain inalienable rights. these winds of change that are blowing, i think i would be a little less cocky in the kremlin with my kgb cronies today if i were vladimir putin. i would be a little less secur

. >> a former american secretary of state, madeleine albright once described the united states as an indispensable nation. she called it the indispensable nation. richard, is it still indispensable? >> on many issues, yes. but if you're the chinese leadership, you want to dispense with the u.s. in the pacific, for example. even if you're, um, the brazilian leadership, which is much more pro-american, you would actually like a reduced american role across, um, across, across latin america. and so there are mountain crushers gradually mounting, often very hard to observe, but they are, they are contributing to a trend, um, that we simply can describe as american decline. >> david, is there a substitute on the, uh, in the wings? who's going to be the indispensable nation, if anyone? >> i don't think there is. a lot of the debate about china is about just this. is china proposing some sort of beijing consensus to replace the washington consensus about, uh, about free markets and, uh, i, i don't think so. i think what we see from china, uh, much more is sort of free ridin uh, let the u.s.

but there were delays, and then finally, secretary of state madeleine albright went to north korea in the last months of the clinton administration in 1999. president clinton was just about to go himself, and the election was then mooted by the question of whether george bush or al gore had been elected. clinton didn't feel he could leave the country when there was a constitutional crisis, and it all fell apart. and when the george w. bush administration came in, they seemed to have had as a basic policy rule whatever clinton did, do the opposite. but they found what was probably at most a laboratory-scale investigation in north korea of uranium enrichment, and that became a pretext for basically throwing out all of the great framework that gelucci had previously negotiated. and things went downhill from there. and now, finally, it looks like they might be coming back uphill a little bit, but not without north korea taking the step of becoming a nuclear power which is pretty sad and tragic. you know about these points, the limitations on the two size arsenals -- two sides' arsenals. t

this includes former secretary of state madeleine albright. then a panel at the university of miami looks at the health care law and its future. that getting under way at 8:00 eastern on c-span. this weekend, the governors will talk about how to grow economies, education, and cybersecurity as they gather in washington for the annual winter meeting of the national governors' association. live coverage throughout the week and on c-span. >> sunday, mike huckabee promoting his current book. he shares his thoughts on president obama, and his possible run in the 2012 presidential election. watched c-span's road to lighthouse, sunday at 6:00 27:30 pm. >> the conference of mayors holding its annual winter leisure it in washington. they held a news conference to talk about the cuts planned for the community development block grant program passed in the u.s. house budget bill last week. the news conference this about a half an hour. >> good morning. i would like that of all the mirrors present your introduce themselves and the cities they serve. i'm eli

host: madeleine albright speaking on cnn's "state of the union" yesterday on what is happening in egypt. in "the washington post" u.s. races to keep up with the pace of diplomatic whirlwind. looking at some of the other news stories about egypt. taking a look at some of the other images coming to us from "the washington post." obama administration official described a diplomatic blitz. we have an image of protests continuing for the 13th day in sunday -- on sunday in cairo. our question this morning is shall the president obama cord the business community. it will go to jerry in west virginia, and independent caller. caller: i think president obama and the federal government should step aside. if you look over the last 65 years since the end of world war ii, the united states government, especially under the marshall plan, has encouraged business to move out of the country. if you look at how they would to rebuild europe and japan after world war ii, they uncovered businesses to invest in europe and japan. then, as time has gone by, they have done nothing except harm american industries

madeleine albright and sandy and i were just talking about being worried to preserve the development budget that we have. that is an irony of democratic politics. if you took a poll in u.s. the american people, and it has not changed in 30 years, how much of our budget we should spend on development assistance, they would say between 3% and 5%, no more. how much do you think it will spin? 10%, 15%, too much. what is the fact? we spend 1% or less. no matter how many times we say it, it does not register. so even though every member of the united states congress knows that they can safely vote for the assistant budget, they know that they will never be defeated for voting against one. for all of you who are americans, ask you to think about that. when you one to sustain the effort in afghanistan, i agree with what peter galbraith said about meeting our partners, we have to prove our good faith that we are not just interested in doing what happened to them in the 1980's when we were only too happy to dance with them until the soviet union left, and then we left. and the only way you can

the panelists are secretary of state madeleine albright and then the ambassador to the united nations and was always an aggressive supporter of american intervention in the balkans. general wes clark who were many hats and later became the supreme allied commander of nato but at this time was our principal military negotiator in the peace process with richard holbrooke and was on the road that day when we lost those three find people and was indispensable to this work. ambassador peter galbraith was ambassador to croatia in 1993, mediated the agreement in 1995 that ended the conflict in croatia and helped and the muslim-croatian conflict within bosnia-hercegovina. he has gone on to oversee elections in iraq. i encourage peter to say this. he was also at the center of a big controversy about what would happen while the conflict was still raging before we could get the international community involved in terms of whether the croatians and of bosnian muslims would be wiped out in bosnia because there was an international arms embargo which seemed to make sense. that was to minimize confl