I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTDecades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes.
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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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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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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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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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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.
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Wilson’s doctrine of self-determination gave a boost to the idea that wherever there dwelled a people, there should be a state.
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I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.
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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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Fascism did not die with Mussolini, he warned. Hitler is finished, but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains.
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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If an advertiser can use that information to home in on a consumer because of his or her individual interests, what’s to stop a Fascist government from doing the same?
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Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.
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