I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTIn 2016, Fascism was searched on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website more often than any other word in English except surreal, which experienced a sudden spike after the November presidential election.
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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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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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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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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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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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First of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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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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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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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 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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