I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTI also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don’t.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
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Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
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Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.
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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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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 complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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Wilson’s doctrine of self-determination gave a boost to the idea that wherever there dwelled a people, there should be a state.
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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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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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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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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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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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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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Though I had never written a memoir, I was confident that given enough time, I could do a serviceable job. Not elegant, but blunt, informative and funnier than most readers would expect.
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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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