“This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.”

There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.

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.

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

Peace is not a spectator sport.

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

I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.

Until I am carried out, I will carry on.

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.

Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.

First of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.

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.

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.

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.

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

It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.