"I've been a refugee twice, once from the Nazis and we were in England, and then we came to the United States when the communists took over in Czechoslovakia. And I think that it is one of the most un-American things I've ever heard," Albright told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Wednesday night on "Anderson Cooper 360."

Albright, who is known for wearing brooches or decorative pins to convey her foreign policy messages, was wearing a Statue of Liberty pin on her jacket while speaking to Cooper.

"I think the Statue of Liberty is weeping," she said.

The former secretary of state said she will "always remember" seeing the Statue of Liberty when she sailed by it coming to the United States.

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