I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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To reduce the sum of our existence to a competitive struggle for advantage among more than two hundred nations is not clear-eyed but myopic. People and nations compete, but that is not all that they do.
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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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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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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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The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
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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 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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