A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTUntil I am carried out, I will carry on.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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Go for it, never back down, and don’t give in, because there’s no greater satisfaction in life than using your gifts to help others and to contribute to your community and country.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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Painful the grounds for resentment, the easier it is for a Fascist leader to gain followers by dangling the prospect of renewal or by vowing to take back what has been stolen.
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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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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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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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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 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.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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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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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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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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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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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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