How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTFor 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.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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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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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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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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The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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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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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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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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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 temptation is powerful to close our eyes and wait for the worst to pass, but history tells us that for freedom to survive, it must be defended and that if lies are to stop, they must be exposed.
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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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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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