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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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Though I had never written a memoir, I was confident that given enough time, I could do a serviceable job. Not elegant, but blunt, informative and funnier than most readers would expect.
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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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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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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.
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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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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fascism did not die with Mussolini, he warned. Hitler is finished, but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains.
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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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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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