Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTGood guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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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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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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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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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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Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
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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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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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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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Especially 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.
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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