Wilson’s doctrine of self-determination gave a boost to the idea that wherever there dwelled a people, there should be a state.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe 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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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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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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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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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.
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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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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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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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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I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
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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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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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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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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.
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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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