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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.

Madeleine Albright

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Ability Different Leadership Understand View
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 ALBRIGHT

Creation Difficult Effort Myself Need Team Thinking View
The temptation is powerful to close our eyes and wait for the worst to pass, but history tells us that for freedom to survive, it must be defended and that if lies are to stop, they must be exposed.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Eyes Freedom Lie Ourselves Powerful Stop Survive Wait Worst
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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Game Oneself People Plan Voice Willing
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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Afraid Angry Direction Freedom Ourselves Pain
A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Career Himself Vote
A dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Name Oppression Rule
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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Community Greatness Life Satisfaction
The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Force Time Voice
Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Carry Myself
Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Character Reputation Yourself
Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Philosophy Truth
The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Effort Election People Power
The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Human Moral Responsibility Right Virtue
Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Emotional Hate Policy
Peace is not a spectator sport.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

One Liner Peace

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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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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