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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
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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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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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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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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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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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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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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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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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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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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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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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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 is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
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