Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTAs a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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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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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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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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To reduce the sum of our existence to a competitive struggle for advantage among more than two hundred nations is not clear-eyed but myopic. People and nations compete, but that is not all that they do.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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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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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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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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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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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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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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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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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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