Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTBill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
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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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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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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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Go for it, never back down, and don’t give in, because there’s no greater satisfaction in life than using your gifts to help others and to contribute to your community and country.
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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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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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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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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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The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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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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