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.
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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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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I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference, I am an optimist who worries a lot.
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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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Though I had never written a memoir, I was confident that given enough time, I could do a serviceable job. Not elegant, but blunt, informative and funnier than most readers would expect.
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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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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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