The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTEspecially 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.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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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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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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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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A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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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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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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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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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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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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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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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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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