The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTWages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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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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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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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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Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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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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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference, I am an optimist who worries a lot.
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Because of my parents’ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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