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 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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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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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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There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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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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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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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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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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