As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTRepeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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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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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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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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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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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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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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The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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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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In 2016, Fascism was searched on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website more often than any other word in English except surreal, which experienced a sudden spike after the November presidential election.
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