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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTI 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.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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Painful the grounds for resentment, the easier it is for a Fascist leader to gain followers by dangling the prospect of renewal or by vowing to take back what has been stolen.
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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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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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In 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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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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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 have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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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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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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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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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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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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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.
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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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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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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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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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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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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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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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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 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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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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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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