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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTTrump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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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 real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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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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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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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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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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When, at a party, a woman (half socialite, half journalist) told me how brave she thought I had been for not getting a facelift, I was tempted to comment on the courage she had shown in dealing with the results of hers.
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I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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