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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.

Madeleine Albright

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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Believe Myself Thinking Wasted Time
The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Greatness Life Myself
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

Brave Courage Dealing Herself Make Up Result Talk Woman
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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Democracy Fight Freedom People Scare World
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
I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Mindset Myself Phone Remember
McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Fools People
Wilson’s doctrine of self-determination gave a boost to the idea that wherever there dwelled a people, there should be a state.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Determination Idea People
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 ALBRIGHT

Enough Man Myself Oppression Time Woman
Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Best Word
Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Human Principle Respect Right
I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Believe Deserve Myself Yourself
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
It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Born Connection Destroy Easy Ideas Kill
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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Force Future Nation
Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Philosophy Truth

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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