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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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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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Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
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The Fascist game plan: a single party, speaking with one voice, controlling every state institution, claiming to represent all people, and labeling the entire sham a triumph of the popular will.
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If 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?
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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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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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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
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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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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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In 2016, Fascism was searched on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website more often than any other word in English except surreal, which experienced a sudden spike after the November presidential election.
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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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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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This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible. The Internet should be an ally of freedom and a gateway to knowledge; in some cases, it is neither.
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