Biden's great words about Madeleine Albright after her death

Biden through a tweet on Twitter said Albright was a force for kindness, courtesy and freedom.

According to him, her hands turned the tide of history.

“Madelene Albright was a force for goodness, greatness, courtesy and freedom. Her hands turned the tide of history. Jill and I will miss you very much, and we'll send her family's love and prayers to her”, Biden wrote on Twitter.

Biden's full statement of Albright:

Madeleine Albright was a force.

Her hands turned the tide of history.

As a young girl, she found a home in the United States after her family left their native country, Czechoslovakia during World War II, and the Iron curtain collapsed in Central and Eastern Europe. Her father, a diplomat, was marked to death by the Soviet regime. She spent the rest of her days defending freedom worldwide and raising up those who suffered under pressure.

She was a fugitive immigrant from persecution. A refugee who needed a safe shelter. And as much before her and after she was proud American.

To make this place that she loved even better she challenged conventions and broke barriers again and again. As a devoted mother of three lovely girls, she worked hard to raise them while earning her doctorate and began her career. She first took her talents to the Senate as employees of Senator Edmund Muskie, followed by the National Security Council under President Carter. And then in the United Nations where she served as a U.S. ambassador, and finally, made history like our first secretary of State, appointed by President Clinton.

One scholar, teacher, bestseller author and later successful businessman, Secretary Albright continued to advise presidents and members of Congress with unique skill and diplomatic intelligence. In every role, she used her harsh intellect and keen intelligence and often her unique collection of khnjas to advance American national security and promote peace worldwide. America had no champion more devoted to democracy and human rights than Secretary Albright, who knew personally and wrote strongly about the dangers of autocratics.

Working with Secretary Albright during the 1990s was one of the highlights of my career in the United States Senate during my stay on the Foreign Relations Committee. As the world redefined itself after the Cold War, we were partners and friends who worked to welcome the newly liberated democracies in NATO and face the horrors of genocide in the Balkans.

When I think of Madeleine, I will always remember her intense belief that “America is the necessary nation”.

In the years after she left the government, Secretary Albright never left that belief. As head of the National Democratic Institute for more than two decades, and through other organisations it recommended, it continued to protect democratic principles as vital to American interests of freedom, prosperity and security.

She continued to mentor and feed new generations of foreign policy experts at Georgetown University, the Corbel Centre for International Studies at the University of Denver, named after her father, and beyond. As always, she shared her knowledge and wisdom widely, but she was especially committed to supporting the next generation of leading women, including the creation of the Albright Institute for Global Affairs at College Wellesley.

Madeleine was always a force for kindness, grace and courtesy and freedom.

Jill and I will miss you very much and send our love and prayers to her daughters, Alice, Anne and Katie, her sister Katie, her brother John, her six grandchildren and grandchildren.