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 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.
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First of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.
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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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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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In 2016, Fascism was searched on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website more often than any other word in English except surreal, which experienced a sudden spike after the November presidential election.
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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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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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This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible. The Internet should be an ally of freedom and a gateway to knowledge; in some cases, it is neither.
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The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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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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