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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTBill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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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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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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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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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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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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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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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.
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Fascism, most of the students agreed, is an extreme form of authoritarian rule. Citizens are required to do exactly what leaders say they must do, nothing more, nothing less.
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The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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Especially when we are afraid, angry, or confused, we may be tempted to give away bits of our freedom—or, less painfully, somebody else’s freedom—in the quest for direction and order.
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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries. The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice. And losing has a price.
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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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 once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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The temptation is powerful to close our eyes and wait for the worst to pass, but history tells us that for freedom to survive, it must be defended and that if lies are to stop, they must be exposed.
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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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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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