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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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Especially when we are afraid, angry, or confused, we may be tempted to give away bits of our freedom—or, less painfully, somebody else’s freedom—in the quest for direction and order.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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The Fascist game plan: a single party, speaking with one voice, controlling every state institution, claiming to represent all people, and labeling the entire sham a triumph of the popular will.
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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 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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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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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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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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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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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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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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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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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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