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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.

Madeleine Albright

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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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  I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don’t.

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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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  A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.

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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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  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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  The 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.

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  Fascism 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.

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  What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

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  Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.

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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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  McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.

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  The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.

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  Historian Robert Paxton begins one of his books by asserting: Fascism was the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain.

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  I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes.

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