McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTA dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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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 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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Because of my parents’ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
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If an advertiser can use that information to home in on a consumer because of his or her individual interests, what’s to stop a Fascist government from doing the same?
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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes.
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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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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
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Good 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.
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