Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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Because of my parents’ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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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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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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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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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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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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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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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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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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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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