It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTIt took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTWell, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTIf an advertiser can use that information to home in on a consumer because of his or her individual interests, what’s to stop a Fascist government from doing the same?
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTI do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTHate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTIt took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTA dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThis was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTEspecially 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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTTo 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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTRespect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTI really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTFascism 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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe 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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT