The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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For 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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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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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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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.
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The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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