Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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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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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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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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.
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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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 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 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.
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Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible. The Internet should be an ally of freedom and a gateway to knowledge; in some cases, it is neither.
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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.
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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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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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Painful the grounds for resentment, the easier it is for a Fascist leader to gain followers by dangling the prospect of renewal or by vowing to take back what has been stolen.
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