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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTGood 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.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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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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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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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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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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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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
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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.
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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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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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