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.
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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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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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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To reduce the sum of our existence to a competitive struggle for advantage among more than two hundred nations is not clear-eyed but myopic. People and nations compete, but that is not all that they do.
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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Wilson’s doctrine of self-determination gave a boost to the idea that wherever there dwelled a people, there should be a state.
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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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The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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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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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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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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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries. The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice. And losing has a price.
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The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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