The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTHow can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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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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A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.
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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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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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I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference, I am an optimist who worries a lot.
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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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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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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Though I had never written a memoir, I was confident that given enough time, I could do a serviceable job. Not elegant, but blunt, informative and funnier than most readers would expect.
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