Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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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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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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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I 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.
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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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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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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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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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In 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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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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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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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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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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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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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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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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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.
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I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference, I am an optimist who worries a lot.
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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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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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Especially when we are afraid, angry, or confused, we may be tempted to give away bits of our freedom—or, less painfully, somebody else’s freedom—in the quest for direction and order.
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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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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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