The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTWe 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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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 more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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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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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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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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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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Fascism, most of the students agreed, is an extreme form of authoritarian rule. Citizens are required to do exactly what leaders say they must do, nothing more, nothing less.
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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 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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