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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTIt took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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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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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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A dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.
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When, at a party, a woman (half socialite, half journalist) told me how brave she thought I had been for not getting a facelift, I was tempted to comment on the courage she had shown in dealing with the results of hers.
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The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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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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