If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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Fascism, most of the students agreed, is an extreme form of authoritarian rule. Citizens are required to do exactly what leaders say they must do, nothing more, nothing less.
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First of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.
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The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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For the DPRK and its military, the ouster of Saddam Hussein conveyed a powerful message: it’s not enough to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. To be secure, a nation must build them, own them, and hide them.
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
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A dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.
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This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible. The Internet should be an ally of freedom and a gateway to knowledge; in some cases, it is neither.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don’t.
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