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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTIn 2016, Fascism was searched on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website more often than any other word in English except surreal, which experienced a sudden spike after the November presidential election.
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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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Historian Robert Paxton begins one of his books by asserting: Fascism was the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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The Fascist game plan: a single party, speaking with one voice, controlling every state institution, claiming to represent all people, and labeling the entire sham a triumph of the popular will.
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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 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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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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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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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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Go for it, never back down, and don’t give in, because there’s no greater satisfaction in life than using your gifts to help others and to contribute to your community and country.
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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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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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